From Howe Street to Accra is a fun, fast paced story of the behind the scenes making of the film Coming to Africa. The book details how an inexperienced journalist wound up being an assistant director on a motion picture. The book also talks about the obstacles that the US based crew had to overcome working in a foreign country. The book also depicts the mental trials a born loner has to overcome to reinvent himself and break out of the prison of his own mind.