Amu Djoleto
Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.
Also recorded as Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto
Amu Djoleto
- Born
- 1929 · Bana Hill.
- Nationality
- Ghana
- Occupation
- writer · poet · novelist
- Education
- Accra Academy · St. Augustine's College · University of Ghana
- Languages
- English
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Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.
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Amu Djoleto (born 1929 in Bana Hill) is a writer, novelist and poet and a national of Ghana. Amu Djoleto studied at Accra Academy and University of Ghana. The recorded working language is English.
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Amu Djoleto was born at Manyakpogunor, Manya Krobo, Ghana, the son of Frederick Badu, a Presbyterian minister, and Victoria Shome Tetteh, "a modest trader". He was educated at Accra Academy and St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast before reading English at the University of Ghana. He joined Ghana's Ministry of Education in the 1960s as a teacher and education officer. After studying textbook production at the Institute of Education, University of London, he returned to Ghana to edit the Ghana Teachers' Journal. At one point heading the Ministry of Education's publishing programme, he has continued to work for the Ministry of Education. Djoleto contributed to the poetry anthologies Voices of Ghana (1958) and Messages (1970), and his poems were collected in Amid the Swelling Act. He is best known for his novels, the first of which was The Strange Man (1967).
Novels
Novels
• The Strange Man, London, Heinemann, 1967. African Writers Series, no. 41. • Money Galore, London [etc.]: Heinemann, 1975. African Writers Series, no. 160. • Hurricane of Dust, 1987
Poetry
Poetry
• Amid the Swelling Act, 1992
Other
Other
• English practice for the African student, 1967 • (ed. with T. H. S. Kwami) West African Prose, Heinemann Educational Books, 1972. • The Ghana Book Development Council: aims and objectives, 1976 • Books and reading in Ghana, 1985
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1929
Amu Djoleto was born on 22 July 1929.
Children's books
• Obodai Sai, 1990 • Twins in Trouble, 1991 • The Frightened Thief, 1992 • The Girl who Knows about Cars, 1996 • Kofi Loses his Way, 1996 • Akos and the Fire Ghost, 1998
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- 1.Sharon Malinowski. Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Cengage Gale. 194. 1994. 978-0-8103-7788-2.
- 2.G. D. Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot. Student Encyclopedia of African Literature. ABC-CLIO. 109–110. 2008. 978-0-313-33580-8.
- 3.S. A. Amu Djoleto. The Strange Man. Heinemann. 286. 1968. 978-0-435-90041-0.
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