 Appearing sometimes twice a year, "Okyeame" published poetry, short stories and drama, as well as a section for news and reviews.Contributors included some of the country's most influential writers and critics, such as Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Efua T. Sutherland, Kofi Awoonor, and others.In an article in "Transition" magazine "On "Okyeame"", Lewis Nkosi expressed the view that "the history of literary movements is more often written in some long forgotten dead little magazine", and the "Black Orpheus" reviewer (possibly Gerald Moore, who had reviewed the first issue of "Okyeame" in "Black Orpheus" no.