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Asare was born in 1954 at Nkonya-Tayi, a town in the Oti Region. [2] He had his primary school and middle school education at Nkonya Ahenkro, and his secondary education at Nkonya Secondary School where he obtained his Ordinary-Level certificate in 1971. [2]
“Literature in the Season of the Diaspora: Notes to the Anglophone Cameroonian Writer" Nalova Lyonga, Bole Butake, Eckhard Breitinger (ed) Anglophone Cameroon Writing. Bayreuth: RFA/Germany. 5 – 18, 1993 “Who's Afraid of Anglophone Theatre I & II”. London: West Africa, 7 – 3 July pp 1106 – 1107, 14–20 July 1146,1997.
He was an invited guest speaker at conferences, such as: Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-staging Histories New York University - 2015 Conference in Florence, Italy 2016 ALA African Literature Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, USA 2017American Association for Italian Studies and the Canadian Society for Italian ...
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Palmer is an author and a literary critic. He was President of the African Literature Association (ALA) from 2006 to 2007. He is the recipient of the ALA's Distinguished Member award as well as the Georgia College & State University's Distinguished Professor Award.
With liberation and increased literacy since most African nations gained their independence in the 1950s and 1960s, African literature has grown dramatically in quantity and in recognition, with numerous African works appearing in Western academic curricula and on "best of" lists compiled since the end of the 20th century.
African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres.The field is complex, primarily because of Africa's original linguistic and cultural diversity and partly because of the effects of slavery and colonisation, the believe in religion and social life which resulted in English, Portuguese and French ...
McCoy, Shane A. "The "outsider within": counter-narratives of the "new" African diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013)." Journal of the African Literature Association 11, no. 3 (2017): 279-294. Sackeyfio, Rose A. "Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in Americanah."