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Ayi Kwei Armah
Ama Atta Aidoo
She was born in 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, in south central Ghana. She grew up in the Fanti royal household. Her father, an advocate of Western education, sent her to the Wesley Girl's High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964. In 1964, she enrolled at the University of Ghana in Legon, where she received a bachelor's degree in English. During her time there, she put on her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965).
Works
The Dilemma of a Ghost. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1965.
Anowa. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1970.
No Sweetness Here, 1970.
Birds and Other Poems. Harare, Zimbabwe: College Press, 1988.
The girl who can and other stories. Legon, Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 1997.
He was born in 1939 to Fante-speaking parents in the port city of Takoradi, Ghana. He left Ghana in 1959 to attend the Groton School in Groton, MA. Afterwards, he attended Harvard. Much of his work deals with the problems of post-colonial Ghana.
Works
The Beautyful Ones Are Not yet Born. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Fragments. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Two Thousand Seasons. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1973.
The Healers. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1978.
Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa Past, Present, and Future. Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh. 1995.
He is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History, University of Ghana. He is Ghana's most renowned historian, also noted for both his political activism and international role as a visiting professor to universities throughout the world, and as a consultant to UNESCO. Amongst his many books and papers on modern and colonial history, he is author of the monographs Mfantsipim and the Making of Ghana: A Centenary History 1876-1976, for which he won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1997. He was also editor of UNESCO's eight volume History of Africa series.
He was the NPP presidential candidate in the 1992 General Election
Publication
Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Adu Boahen Reader [Academic Literature, Africa World Press, 2004]
Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1 [Academic Literature, James Currey, 2003]
Mfantsipim and the making of Ghana: A centenary history 1876-1976 [Academic Literature, Sankofa, 1996]
Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935 (General History of Africa, Vol 7)(Paperback - July 1990)
African Perspectives on Colonialism (Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History, No 15)(Paperback - November 1989)
He was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams. Professor Kofi Awoonor was among those who were killed in the September 21, 2013 terrorist attack at Westgate Shopping Mall, Nairobi, Kenya, by the Al-Shabaab militant group.
Awoonor was born in Ghana when it was still called the Gold Coast. He went to university there and went on to teach African literature at the University of Ghana.
Works
Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964)
Night of My Blood (1971) – poems that explore Awoonor's roots, and the impact of foreign rule in Africa The House By the Sea (1978)
This Earth, My Brother (1971) – a cross between a novel and a poem Comes the Voyager at Last (1992)
Albert Adu Boahen
Professor Kofi Awoonor-Williams
Authors of Ghanaian literature
In this section you can find a small biography of the most representative authors of the literature of ghana and their works, who have written about the tension between Western and African world views, and the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed.
Marialejandra RodrÃguez Arango
The Ghanaian national literature radio program and accompanying publication Voices of Ghana was one of the earliest on the African continent. The most prominent Ghanaian authors are novelists; J. E. Casely Hayford, Ayi Kwei Armah and Nii Ayikwei Parkes, who gained international acclaim with the books, Ethiopia Unbound (1911),The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) and Tail of the Blue Bird (2009), respectively. In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.
Literature
Most important books of the Ghanaian literature in present days.
in this section, the reader will be informed about the latest publications in the Ghanaian literature, also having a short summary and details of the author.
Wife of the Gods
A lyrical and captivating mystery that brings to life the majesty and charm of Ghana, from the capital city of Accra to a small community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei Armah into the limelight. Thenovel is generally a satirical attack on the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and the period
immediately after independence in the 1960s. It is often claimed to rank with "Things Fall Apart" as one of the high points of post-colonial African Literature.
Ghana Must Go
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent.
Children of the Street
In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a form of ritual killing or the work of a lone, cold-blooded monster? With time running out, Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the city’s underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street children are forced to fight for their very survival and a cunning killer seems just out of reach
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