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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 To ...
or whose writings are closely associated with that country.


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Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation to ...
(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 Ayesha Harruna Attah (born December 1983) is a Ghanaian-born fiction writer. She lives in Senegal. Early years and education Ayesha Harruna Attah was born in Accra, Ghana, in the 1980s, under a military government, to a mother who was a journali ...
(born 1983), novelist


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Adwoa Badoe Adwoa Badoe is a Ghanaian teacher, writer, and dancer based in Canada. Biography Adwoa was born in Ghana. She studied Human biology at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and qualified as a doctor. She moved to Canada a ...
, novelist *
Yaba Badoe Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. Career Yaba Badoe was born in Tamale, northern Ghana. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.Beti Ellerson"A Conversation with Y ...
(born 1955), novelist and filmmaker *
Elizabeth-Irene Baitie Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (born 1970)
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Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), novelist *
Margaret Busby Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let' ...
, publisher and dramatist * Abena Busia (1953– ), poet and academic *
Akosua Busia Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the United Kingdom. She played Nettie Harris in the 1985 film ''The Color Purple'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Family and early l ...
(1966– ), actress, novelist and screenwriter


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Adelaide Casely-Hayford Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Order of the British Empire, MBE (née Smith; 2 June 1868 – 24 January 1960), was a Sierra Leone Creole people, Sierra Leone Creole advocate, an activist of cultural nationalism, a teacher and fiction writer and a femi ...
(1868–1960), short story writer and educator * Gladys May Casely-Hayford (1901–1950), poet


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Mabel Dove Danquah Mabel Dove Danquah (1905
''Graphic Online'' (via Modern Ghana), 13 April 2007. (Some ...
(1910–1984), short story writer and journalist *
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 13 September 1967) is a Ghanaian-American writer, editor, journalist and public speaker, whose name at birth was Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby. She is best known for her 1998 memoir ''Willow Weep for Me: A Bl ...
(born 1967), memoirist *
Amma Darko Amma Darko (born 1956) is a Ghanaian novelist. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. She has published seven novels in total. Life and writing She was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, ...
(born 1956), novelist


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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 ...
(born 1989), novelist * Ruby Yayra Goka (born 1982), young adult writer


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Afua Hirsch Afua Hirsch (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. Early life Afua Hirsch was born in ...
(born 1981), journalist


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Lesley Lokko Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist.Lesley ...
, novelist, architect and academic


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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 ...
, novelist and academic


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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 ...
, novelist, art historian and filmmaker * Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh (1936–2011), children's writer, publisher, educationist and politician


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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 Lond ...
(born 1979), novelist *
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'' ...
(1924–1996), playwright *
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 Sect ...
, academician, writer, educationalist, and human rights activist * Margaret Safo (1957-2014), journalist and young adult novelist lso known as Peggy Oppong


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* Mamle Wolo, novelist, short story writer


See also

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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-mode ...
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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 (1 ...


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Ghanaian 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 Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...
Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ...
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