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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 ...

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* Kobena Eyi Acquah (b. 1952) * Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey (b. 1988) *

P. A. K. Aboagye Paul Alfred Kwesi Aboagye (5 January 1925 – 19 June 2001) was a Ghanaian poet, essayist, novelist, and historian of the Nzema language. Early life and education Paul Alfred Kwesi Aboagye was born to the late Tufuhene Koame Aboagye of Nuba ...

(1925–2001) *

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (born 1916) is a Ghanaian poet and writer. Life In 1958 Adali-Mortty joined the advisory committee of the international literary journal ''Black Orpheus''. He was a contributor to the 1958 anthology '' Voices of Ghana: Lit ...

(b. 1916) * Padmore Enyonam Agbemabiese (b. 1965) * Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1942) *

Kofi Anyidoho Kofi Anyidoho (born 25 July 1947) is a Ghanaian poet and academic who comes from a family tradition of Ewe poets and oral artists.

(b. 1947) *

Raphael Armattoe Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe (12 August 1913 – 22 December 1953) was a Ghanaian medical doctor, author, poet and politician. He was nominated for the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology and was a campaigner for unification of British and ...

(1913–1953) * Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013)

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* J. Benibengor Blay (b. 1915) *

Kwesi Brew Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew (27 May 1928 – 30 July 2007) was a Ghanaian poet and diplomat. Biography Brew was born in Cape Coast, Ghana, to a Fante family in 1928. He was brought up by a British guardian—education officer, K. J. Dickens—after ...

(1928–2007) * Nana Brew-Hammond *

Abena Busia Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of former Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia. Busia is an associate professor of ...

(b. 1953) *

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 ...

(b. 1966)

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* Gladys Casely-Hayford (1901–1950) *

Chief Moomen Abdul Moomen Muslim (born 16 December 1990) known professionally as Chief Moomen is a Ghanaian poet, playwright and creative entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Ghanaian historical epic - ''WogbeJeke: Our Journey'', a theatrical ree ...

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Nana Awere Damoah Nana Awere Damoah (born 3 June 1975, Accra) is a Ghanaian author. He has six books to his credit. Damoah, who is a British Council Chevening alumnus with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Nottingham, works as a Te ...

(b. 1975) *

Lawrence Darmani Lawrence Darmani is a Ghanaian novelist, poet, and publisher. His first novel, ''Grief Child'', won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize as best first book from Africa in 1992. He also writes devotional articles for ''Our Daily Bread'', which touches t ...

(b. 1956) * Kwame Dawes (b. 1962) *

Joe de Graft Joseph Coleman de Graft (2 April 1924 – 1 November 1978) was a prominent Ghanaian writer, playwright and dramatist, who was appointed the first director of the Ghana Drama Studio in 1962. He produced and directed plays for radio, stage and telev ...

(1924–1978) *

Michael Dei-Anang Michael Francis Dei-Anang (October 1909 – 1977) was a Ghanaian civil servant, writer, poet, and novelist. Early life and education Dei-Annang was born in October 1909 at Akwapim-Mampong. His ancestral roots in Akwapim-Mampong link him to the ...

(1909–1977) *

Amu Djoleto 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" ...

(b. 1929) *

Cameron Duodu Martin Cameron Duodu (born 24 May 1937)''Africa Who's Who'', London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, pp. 349–50. is a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian novelist, journalist, editor and broadcaster. After publishing a novel, ''The Gab Boys ...

(b. 1937)

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Ellis Ayitey Komey Ellis Ayitey Komey (1927 – 27 July 1972) was a Ghanaian writer and poet. Early years and education Komey was born in 1927 in Labadi, a suburb of Accra in the British colony of the Gold Coast. He had his early education at Methodist Senior Boy ...

(1927–1972) * Koo Kumi (b. 1994) *

Benjamin Kwakye Benjamin Kwakye (born 7 January 1967) is a Ghanaian novelist and lawyer. His first novel, ''The Clothes of Nakedness'', won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and has been adapted for radio as a BBC Play of the Week. H ...

(b. 1967)

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Kojo Laing B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing (1 July 1946 – 20 April 2017) was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. ...

(1946–2017)

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* Atukwei Okai (1941–2018)

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Frank Kobina Parkes Frank Kobina Parkes (8 March 1932 – 23 May 2004) was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster and poet. He was the author of one book, ''Songs from the Wilderness'' (University of London Press, 1965), but is widely anthologised and is perhaps best kno ...

(1923–2004) * Nii Parkes (b. 1974)

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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)

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Poets A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...