Kofi Aidoo is a

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 ...

ian writer. He was born in the 1950s at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area of

, where he also began his Elementary Education at Asikwa. He initially wrote short stories based on experiences with his father traveling around the country. He studied at Anum Presbyterian Training College and later studied journalism part-time at the

Ghana Institute of Journalism The Ghana Institute of Journalism is a public university in Ghana. The institute has accreditation from the National Accreditation Board. History The Ghana Institute of Journalism was established on 16 October 1959 by Kwame Nkrumah, the first pre ...

.Richard Rathbone, ''Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana'', Yale University Press, 1993, , p. 203

Works

*''Saworben: a collection of short stories'', Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1977 *''Of Men and Ghosts'', , Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1991. Longman, 1994

References

1950s births Living people Ghanaian writers University of Maryland, College Park alumni College of Wooster alumni {{Ghana-writer-stub