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Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, [1] and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.
Notable poets from Ghana include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Philip Boakye Dua Oyinka, popularly known as Nana Asaase [1] is a poet, [2] [3] literary coach and writer. [4] [5] He is also a member of the National Folklore Board. [6]He was born on 12 December and comes from Koforidua in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Ghanaian literature is literature produced by authors from Ghana or in the Ghanaian diaspora.It starts with a long oral tradition, was influenced heavily by western literature during colonial rule, and became prominent with a post-colonial nationalist tradition in the mid-20th century.
Contemporary Africa has a range of important poets across many different genres and cultures. Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023) [1] was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. [2] [3] She was Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.
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Kofi Anyidoho's poetry is respected as distinct in the way he weaves modernity into tradition and inspires hope by extending the three-chord rope of Ewe oral tradition. [9] He not only writes with the background of Ewe oral tradition experiences but also enacts the very performance and oration of his poems in griotic style. [10] [11]