Armah, Ayi Kwei, 1939-
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Name (Latin)
Armah, Ayi Kwei, 1939-
Other forms of name
Ayi-Kwei-Armah, 1939-
Armah, George Aryee-Quaye, 1939-
Date of birth
1939-10-28
Associated country
Ghana
Occupation
Essayists
Novelists
Poets
Translators
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database(Armah, Ayi Kwei; George Aryee Quaye Armah; novelist, translator, poet, essayist; born 1939 in Sekondi Takoradi, Ghana; attended Prince of Wales College (now Achimota School) near Accra (1953-1958); worked as a news writer for Radio Ghana (1959); won a Carnegie Corporation scholarship to join Groton School in Massachusetts (1959); graduated with BA degree in sociology from Harvard (1963); left America for Algeria to work as a translator for the magazine Révolution Africaine (1963); employed as a script writer at Ghana Television (1964); editor at the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique (1967); graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Writing and Translation (1970); taught for a semester at the University of Massachusetts before leaving for Kenya and then Tanzania, where he taught at the College of National Education in Chang'ombe (until 1976); taught creative and expository writing at the National University of Lesotho (1976))
- Author's The beautyful ones are not yet born, 1968.
- L'Age d'or n'est pas pour demain de Ayi Kwei Armah, c1985:cover (Ayi-Kwei-Armah)
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Ayi Kwei Armah
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Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer best known for his novels including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and The Healers (1978). He is also an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children.
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