Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.

Life

Amu Djoleto was born at Manyakpogunor, Manya Krobo, Ghana, the son of Frederick Badu, a Presbyterian minister, and Victoria Shome Tetteh, "a modest trader". He was educated at

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and St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast before reading English at the

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. He joined Ghana's

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in the 1960s as a teacher and education officer. After studying textbook production at the

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, he returned to Ghana to edit the ''Ghana Teachers' Journal''. At one point heading the Ministry of Education's publishing programme, he has continued to work for the Ministry of Education. Djoleto contributed to the poetry anthologies '' Voices of Ghana'' (1958) and ''Messages'' (1970), and his poems were collected in ''Amid the Swelling Act''. He is best known for his novels, the first of which was ''The Strange Man'' (1967).

Works

Novels

* ''The Strange Man'', London, Heinemann, 1967.

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, no. 41. * ''Money Galore'', London tc. Heinemann, 1975. African Writers Series, no. 160. * ''Hurricane of Dust'', 1987

Poetry

* ''Amid the Swelling Act'', 1992

Children's books

* ''Obodai Sai'', 1990 * ''Twins in Trouble'', 1991 * ''The Frightened Thief'', 1992 * ''The Girl who Knows about Cars'', 1996 * ''Kofi Loses his Way'', 1996 * ''Akos and the Fire Ghost'', 1998

Other

* ''English practice for the African student'', 1967 * (ed. with T. H. S. Kwami) ''West African Prose'', Heinemann Educational Books, 1972. * ''The Ghana Book Development Council: aims and objectives'', 1976 * ''Books and reading in Ghana'', 1985

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Djoleto, Amu 1929 births Living people Ghanaian novelists Ghanaian male poets Ghanaian educators Alumni of the Accra Academy 20th-century Ghanaian poets 20th-century male writers St. Augustine's College (Cape Coast) alumni Ga-Adangbe people