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Ghanaian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Ghana or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), playwright, poet, fiction writer and critic * Mary Asabea Ashun (1968–), novelist and educator * Portia Arthur (born 1990), author, writer and reporter * Ayesha Harruna Attah (born 1983), novelist B * Adwoa Badoe, novelist * Yaba Badoe (born 1955), novelist and filmmaker * Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (born 1970), writer of young adult fiction * Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), novelist * Margaret Busby, publisher and dramatist * Abena Busia (1953– ), poet and academic * Akosua Busia (1966– ), actress, novelist and screenwriter C * Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator * Gladys May Casely-Hayford (1901–1950), poet D * Mabel Dove Danquah (1910–1984), short story writer and journalist * Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967), memoirist * Amma Darko (born 1956), novelist G * Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.Jackson, John G. (2001) ''Introduction to African Civilizations'', Citadel Press, p. 201, . Ghana covers an area of , spanning diverse biomes that range from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With nearly 31 million inhabitants (according to 2021 census), Ghana is the List of African countries by population, second-most populous country in West Africa, after Nigeria. The capital and List of cities in Ghana, largest city is Accra; other major cities are Kumasi, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale, and Sekondi-Takoradi. The first permanent state in present-day Ghana was the Bono state of the 11th century. Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel ''Homegoing'', published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's " 5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the American Book Award. She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020. Early life and education Born in Mampong, Ghana, she is the daughter of Kwaku Gyasi, a professor of French at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Sophia, who is a nurse. Her family moved to the United States in 1991 when her father was completing his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. The family also lived in Illinois and Tennessee, and from the age of 10, Gyasi was raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Gyasi recalls being shy as a child, feeling close to her brothers for their shared experiences as young immigrant children in Alabama, and turning to books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghanaian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Ghana or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), playwright, poet, fiction writer and critic * Mary Asabea Ashun (1968–), novelist and educator * Portia Arthur (born 1990), author, writer and reporter * Ayesha Harruna Attah (born 1983), novelist B * Adwoa Badoe, novelist * Yaba Badoe (born 1955), novelist and filmmaker * Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (born 1970), writer of young adult fiction * Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), novelist * Margaret Busby, publisher and dramatist * Abena Busia (1953– ), poet and academic * Akosua Busia (1966– ), actress, novelist and screenwriter C * Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator * Gladys May Casely-Hayford (1901–1950), poet D * Mabel Dove Danquah (1910–1984), short story writer and journalist * Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967), memoirist * Amma Darko (born 1956), novelist G * Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ghanaian Writers
This is a list of Ghanaian writers. A * Joseph Wilfred Abruquah (1920–1997), novelist * Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (1916–), poet * Kobena Eyi Acquah (1952–), poet * Kofi Acquah-Dadzie (1939–), jurist, and writer * Francis Agbodeka (1931–2005), academic and writer * Jot Agyeman (1967–), media practitioner * Ivor Agyeman-Duah (1966–), academic, writer, editor and film director * Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), playwright, poet, fiction writer and critic * Kofi Akpabli (1973–), journalist, publisher, and travel writer. * Kofi Aidoo (1950–), short story writer * Mohammed Naseehu Ali (1971–), short story and non-fiction writer * Joseph Godson Amamoo (1931–), journalist and author * Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703–c.1759), philosopher * T. E. Anin (living), economist and author * Kofi Anyidoho (1947–), poet and academic * Anthony Appiah (1954–), philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist * Ayi Kwei Armah (1939–), novelist * T. Q. Armar (1915–2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Women Writers
* List of women writers (A–L) * List of women writers (M–Z) See also *Feminist literary criticism *Feminist science fiction *Feminist theory * Gender in science fiction *List of biographical dictionaries of female writers *List of early-modern British women novelists *List of early-modern British women playwrights *List of early-modern British women poets * List of female detective/mystery writers *List of female poets *List of women cookbook writers * List of women electronic writers *Lists of women writers by nationality *List of feminist literature *List of female rhetoricians *List of women hymn writers *''Norton Anthology of Literature by Women'' *Women in science fiction *Women Writers Project *Women's writing in English *Sophie (digital lib) External linksA Celebration of Women Writers [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sarfo
Margaret Sarfo (pen name Peggy Oppong, née Odame; 26 January 1957 – 8 May 2014) was a Ghanaian author and journalist. She worked with the Graphic Communications Group Limited rising through the ranks to become the Editor of The Mirror. Early life and education Sarfo was born in 1957 to Daniel Odame and his wife, of Mpraeso, Kwahu, in south Ghana. She attended primary schools in Adabraka, Accra, followed by the Okuapeman Secondary School, Akropong in 1971 where she attained the General Certificate of Education (GCE), Ordinary and Advanced levels. She enrolled at the University of Ghana in 1979, graduating with a BA (Hons) in English and Russian. After a year studying in Russia, she returned to the University of Ghana and obtained a Graduate Diploma and MPhil degrees in Communication Studies... Career Margaret Safo joined the then Graphic Cooperation for her national service. She became a permanent employment as a staff writer in the 2nd January,1987. She earned the honor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esi Sutherland-Addy
Esi Sutherland-Addy is a Ghanaian academician, writer, educationalist, and human rights activist. She is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, where she has been senior research fellow, head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section, and associate director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana. She is credited with more than 50 publications in the areas of education policy, higher education, female education, literature, theatre and culture, and serves on numerous committees, boards and commissions locally and internationally. She is the daughter of writer and cultural activist Efua Sutherland. Biography Born in Ghana as Esi Reiter Sutherland, she is the eldest of the three children of playwright and cultural activist Efua Sutherland and African-American Bill Sutherland (1918–2010), a colonial civil rights activist who went to Ghana in 1953 on the recommendation of George Padmore to Kwame Nkrumah. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efua Sutherland
Efua Theodora Sutherland (born 27 June 1924 – 2 January 1996) was a Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist. Her works include the plays ''Foriwa'' (1962), ''Edufa'' (1967), and ''The Marriage of Anansewa'' (1975). She founded the Ghana Drama Studio, the Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre, and a community project called the Kodzidan (Story House). As the earliest Ghanaian playwright-director she was an influential figure in the development of modern Ghanaian theatre, and helped to introduce the study of African performance traditions at the university level. She was also a pioneering African publisher, establishing the company Afram Publications in Accra in the 1970s. She was a cultural advocate for children from the early 1950s until her death, and played a role in developing educational curricula, literature, theatre and film for and about Ghanaian children. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. Early life and education Taiye Selasi was born in London, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the elder of twin daughters of Dr. Lade Wosornu, of Ghanaian descent, a surgeon in Saudi Arabia and author of numerous volumes of poetry, and Dr. Juliette Tuakli, of Nigerian heritage, a paediatrician in Ghana known for her advocacy of children's rights, including sitting on the board of United Way. Selasi's parents separated when she was an infant. She met her biological father at the age of 12. Her given name means first twin in her mother's native Yoruba. She had changed her surname several times; she was born with her mother's surname, she then adopted her step-father's surname (Williams), at 12 she had her surname changed to her father's (Wosornu), later she decided to adopt the hyphenated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh
Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh (6 February 1936 – 14 February 2011) was a Ghanaian children's writer, publisher, educationist and politician. She was the recipient of a Noma Award honourable mention in 1980 for ''The Walking Calabash''. Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana. In the 1996 parliamentary elections she stood as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate in Kade Kade is a village and a former municipality in the Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Jerichow Jerichow () is a town on the east side of the river Elbe, in the District of Jerichowe ..., coming second with 37.9% of the vote. Works *''Rivers of Ghana'', 1979 *''Kofizee Goes to School'', 1978 *''The Walking Calabash and Other Stories'', 1977 *''Mosquito Town'', 1966 References Ghanaian children's writers Living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker. Background Nana Ofosuaa Oforiatta Ayim was raised in Germany, England, and her ancestral homeland in Ghana. She studied Russian and Politics at the University of Bristol and went on to work in the Department of Political Affairs at United Nations in New York. She completed her master's degree in African Art History at SOAS University of London. Oforiatta Ayim comes from a political family in Ghana, the Ofori-Attas, whose power spans both the traditional and the modern. Her maternal grandfather was Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, the renowned king of Akyem Abuakwa who was hailed as the Louis XIV of Africa, and her great-uncle was J. B. Danquah, the scholar and politician who gave Ghana its name and started the political party that brought about Independence. Writing Her first novel ''The God Child'' was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK in 2019, the US in 2020 and by Penguin Random Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Adzo Medie
Peace Adzo Medie is a Liberian-born Ghanaian academic and writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Early life and education Medie was born in Liberia and moved to Ghana as a child, where she studied at OLA Girls Senior High School. She received a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Ghana. She then completed her postgraduate studies in the United States, where she obtained a Ph.D. in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. Career Academic career Medie worked as a research fellow at the University of Ghana and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is now a senior lecturer in gender and international politics at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Her work was awarded the 2012–2013 ''African Affairs'' African Author Prize. Her scholarship focuses on gender, politics, and armed conflict. In 2020, Medie published her first book, the schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
