KNOW YOUR AUTHORS: OCTAVIA BUTLER
BY RAYNA REID RAYFORD
On this International Women's Day, the Ama Ata AIdoo Centre for Creative Writing sautes Octavia Estelle Butler. the greatest writer that...
20 African authors you should know
There's a whole host of authors from Africa who are making a splash on the international stage. These are a few.
Maaza Mengiste's novel The...
Know Your Authors: Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland was a phenomenal Ghanaian writer, dramatist, teacher, scholar and cultural activist. For about 40 years, she was in the forefront of literary...
Know Your Authors: Kojo Laing
B. Kojo Laing ('B' for Bernard) was a novelist and poet, whose writing is characterized by its hybridity, using Pidgin and vernacular alongside standard...
Know Your Authors: Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah is a highly acclaimed novelist, poet and pan-African. Armah’s work is known to critically examine moral integrity that exists between the...
Know Your Authors: Ama Ata Aidoo
Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of Africa’s foremost woman writers. She’s a feminist, poet, academic, playwright and novelist with many notable works under...
Authors of Untold Stories Vol. I: Short Stories and Poems
Vanessa Naa Okialey Vanderpuye is a Level 300 student of African University College of Communication, majoring in Journalism. She’s from Agona Swedru. Poetry and...
Authors of The Lockdown: Creative Nonfiction about Living with COVID-19 (2021)
Grace Louise Wood is a British-Jamaican writer, artist, educator, yogi and traveller. She has been living and working in Ghana since 2018, running education...
Authors of Larabanga: Short Stories From The Savannah (2019)
Born and bred in Accra, Frederick Nii Ofei Bruce is a Chemical Engineer by profession. His love however extends into the fields of writing,...
AUTHORS OF ADABRAKA: STORIES FROM THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD [2018]
KWASI ’SEI
This is the pen name of Dr. Michael Osei Agyapong, a medical officer in Techiman. ‘Sei’s short stories have won many awards including...