Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty

Adali-Mortty was born on 16 June 1916. He obtained Teacher's Certificate A from Prince of Wales College, Achimota, in 1935. In 1961, while serving at the University of Ghana, Legon, he received a Rockefeller Foundation study award in Business Administration for further study in the United States.(Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report (1961),Pg.186)

• Illustration — A reader viewing Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty's poem The Spent Scare in the 3 March 1967 issue of The Legon Observer. In 1958, he joined the advisory committee of the international literary journal that promoted African literature criticism. Black Orpheus. Adali-Mortty was also a contributor to the 1958 anthology Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, edited by Henry Swanzy, and contributed both poetry and political commentary to the Legon Observer: for example, "The Spent Scare" (1967) was written in response to the coup that ended Nkrumah's rule. Adali-Mortty later served as Special Commissioner for Redeployment of Labour. He subsequently became a Lecturer in Human Resources at the University of Ghana, where he continued to contribute to literary and intellectual discourse. (ERIC Document ED063107,Pg.5) In 1971, Adali-Mortty co-edited Messages: Poems from Ghana with Kofi Awoonor as part of Heinemann's African Writers Series. African Writers Series,(Google Books).

The following table lists published works by Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty. • Year — Title — Type — Role • 1958 — Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57 — Anthology — Contributor • 1958 — "Ewe Poetry" — Essay — Author • 1967 — "The Spent Scare" (Black Orpheus, No. 4 (1958), 36-45) — Poem — Author • 1971 — Messages: Poems from Ghana (African Writers Series 42) — Anthology — Co-editor (with Kofi Awoonor) • 1974 — "Change of Government to the Spoils System Again?" (The Legon Observer 9: 4 (1974)) — Essay — Author • 1974 — "Reply to Kwabena Manu 's Rejoinder to 'Change of Government to the Spoils System Again? (The Legon Observer, 9:6 (1974), p. 166) — Essay