What novel did an author who was featured in the Voices of Ghana and later became a journalist write?
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Voices of Ghana Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955-57 was "the first Ghanaian literary anthology of poems, stories, plays and essays". Edited by Henry Swanzy and published in 1958 by the Ghanaian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, "Voices of Ghana" contained works that had been broadcast on the Ghana radio programme "The Singing Net" between 1955 and 1957. The collection opened with an essay, "The Poetry of Drums", by Kwabena Nketia, and the writers anthologised included Frank Parkes, Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, Amu Djoleto and Efua T. Sutherland.
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Cameron Duodu Martin Cameron Duodu (born 24 May 1937) is a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian novelist, journalist, editor and broadcaster. After publishing a novel, "The Gab Boys", in 1967, Duodu went on to a career as a journalist and editorialist.
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Get a Life (novel) Get a Life is a 2005 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The novel tells the story of environmental activist Paul Bannerman and his family. Paul is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery and subsequent radiation treatment, has to live quarantined at his parent's place for some time. This significant change in his life also affects his family. The novel received mixed reviews by critics, and departs from other novels by Gordimer as it does not directly deal with Apartheid, instead focusing on the struggle of a single individual.
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Chidera Okolie Chidera Nneoma Okolie (born 27 March 1993) is a Nigerian writer who gained national attention when her debut novel "When Silence Becomes Too Loud" was endorsed in 2015 by then President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan.
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H. G. de Lisser Herbert George de Lisser CMG (9 December 1878 – 19 May 1944) was a Jamaican journalist and author. He has been called "one of the most conspicuous figures in the history of West Indian literature".
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Chaff on the Wind Chaff on the Wind (1986) is a novel by Ebou Dibba. Set in The Gambia during the 1930s, it was published by Macmillan of London.
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Bitter Fruit Bitter Fruit is a novel by Achmat Dangor first published in 2001 by Kwela Books of Cape Town. Set in South Africa in 1998, it is about the disintegration of a Coloured family in the years after the end of apartheid. According to Gabriel Gbadamosi's review in "The Guardian", "All the bases are touched in a reckoning with South Africa's past and present turmoil, and no box left unopened in the search for some kind of limbo or twilight zone where all unresolved conflicts might find resolution."
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Shirley Graham Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes. In later life she married the noted thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The couple became citizens of Ghana in 1961 after they emigrated to that country. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works.
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Siku Njema Siku Njema is a popular Swahili novel written by the renowned Kenyan author, Ken Walibora. The novel was published in 1996 and saw Walibora become an instant household name in Swahili fiction. Written in the first person, the book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab. Being a child born out of wedlock does not make life easier for him as he is chided by his schoolmates in a culture that frowns upon illegitimate children.
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Richard M Kavuma Richard M. Kavuma is a Ugandan journalist and editor with "The Observer" newspaper. He also writes for the London newspapers "Guardian" and "The Observer" about the Katine project in Uganda. Kavuma has won international awards including the 2006 United Nations Foundation award for Development and Humanitarian coverage and the 2007 CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Award. In 2008 his award-winning articles, about Millennium Development Goals, were published into a book by the United Nations Millennium Campaign. The book, Good Policies, Poor Policing, was launched in Accra, Ghana, in July 2008. Richard M. Kavuma is the editor of The Observer newspaper a tri - weekly that publishes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Alba Bouwer Albertha Magdalena Bouwer (16 March 1920 – 5 October 2010) was a South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author. She is best known for her series of children's stories about the experiences of a small girl called Alie growing up in the fictional location Rivierplaas in rural Free State. Late in life she published a novel for adults, "Die afdraand van die dag is kil" (The close of the day is cold, 1992), about two women in old age.
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Olufemi Terry Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone-born writer. He won the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing for his second short story "Stickfighting Days," which was originally published in "Chimurenga". The judges said he was "a talent with an enormous future". He hopes to publish his debut novel soon.
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Speak (Hall novel) Speak is a 2015 novel by Louisa Hall. It is her second novel, after "The Carriage House". The novel was well received. The novel was inspired by a story in the "New York Times".
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The Leopard (Reid novel) The Leopard is a novel by Jamaican writer, V. S. Reid. It portrays the hardships of the Kenyan people during the time of the Mau Mau Rebellion. Novels similar to "The Leopard", such as Caroline Elkins’s "Imperial Reckoning" (2005), as well as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s "Petals of Blood" (1977) also reflect events during the Mau Mau uprising. "The Leopard", however, distinct from any other novel of its kind, mainly focuses on the controversies of human nature with respect to the co-existence of violence and hatred between Africans and Europeans.
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Foreign Words Foreign Words is a novel by Greek author Vassilis Alexakis that tells the story of middle-aged writer Nicolaides and his decision to learn the African language Sango following the death of his father. The novel was originally published in 2002 in France as "Les mots étrangers", where it was short-listed for the Renaudot Prize and the Interallié Prize. It was then translated by the author and was published in 2004 as "Oi xenes lexeis" in Greece, where it won the prize for best Greek novel of the year. The English translation "Foreign Words" was done by Alyson Waters and was published by Autumn Hill Books in 2006.
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Mabel Dove Danquah Mabel Dove Danquah (1905–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist." She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in "The Times of West Africa"; "Dama Dumas" in the "African Morning Post"; "Ebun Alakija" in the "Nigerian Daily Times"; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the "Accra Evening News". Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly.
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Asare Konadu Samuel Asare Konadu (18 January 1932 – 1994) was a Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher, who also wrote under the pseudonym Kwabena Asare Bediako.
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Ben Okri Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
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Erica Kennedy Erica Kennedy (March 24, 1970 – c. June 13, 2012) was an American author, blogger, news correspondent, fashion journalist, and singer. Her 2004 novel "Bling", became a "New York Times" bestseller. In 2010, she was named to the list of 100 most influential African Americans, as published by "Ebony" magazine and known as the "Ebony Power 100".
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Mirza Waheed Mirza Waheed is a novelist and journalist based in London. Mirza has written for the BBC, the "Guardian", "Granta", "Guernica", Al Jazeera English and "The New York Times". His first novel, "The Collaborator", was published in 2012. His second novel, "The Book of Gold Leaves", was published in 2014.
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Sing to the Dawn Sing to the Dawn is a story by the American author Minfong Ho, which was originally published as a short story and was awarded first prize by the Council of Interracial Books for Children in New York City in 1975. It was later extended to a full-length novel.
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Sirilal Kodikara Sirilal Kodikara is a novelist, poet, journalist, and radio play writer who writes in Sinhala.