Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah was born in 1939 in Sekondi-Takoradi, to Fante-speaking parents. A pupil at Achimota, he left in 1959 on a scholarship for Groton School in the United States, then studied sociology at Harvard. He was a translator for the review Révolution africaine in Algeria, a screenwriter for Ghanaian television and an editor at Jeune Afrique in Paris, then obtained a writing degree at Columbia. He taught in Tanzania, Lesotho and the United States, and has lived in Dakar since the eighties.

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• NovelThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet BornAyi Kwei Armah · 1968Literature