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Atukwei Okai

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Atukwei (John) Okai (born 1941) is a Ghanaian poet, cultural activist and academic. [1]

63 relations: Accra, Accra High School, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Achimota School, Adisadel College, American Review (literary journal), Association of Nigerian Authors, Black Star Square, Cameron Duodu, Cape Coast, Cuba, Dorothy Pizer, Eastern Bloc, Efua Sutherland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Femi Osofisan, Ga-Adangbe people, Gambaga, George Padmore, Ghana, Ghanaian people, Henry Swanzy, Institute of African Studies, Italy, Japan, Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, Kofi Awoonor, Kwame Nkrumah, Kwesi Brew, Legon, London, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Muhammad Iqbal, Nalerigu, Negro Digest, New African, New York City, Nicolás Guillén, Northern Region (Ghana), Order of the Volta, Pakistan, Pan African Writers' Association, Pan-Africanism, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Robert Lowell, San Diego State University College of Arts & Letters, Simon & Schuster, Soviet Union, Stanley Kunitz, ..., The African (Conton novel), The Atlantic, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, United Kingdom, United States, University College London, University of Education, Winneba, University of Ghana, University of Iowa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Wesley Girls' Senior High School, William Farquhar Conton. Expand index (13 more) »

Accra

Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, covering an area of with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million.

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Accra High School

Accra High School is a High school located in Accra, Ghana in West Africa.

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Accra Metropolitan Assembly

Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is the political and administrative authority for the city of Accra.

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Achimota School

Achimota School (formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, now nicknamed Motown), is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana.

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Adisadel College

Adisadel College, popularly known as "Adisco", is an Anglican boys' boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana.

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American Review (literary journal)

American Review was a literary journal published from 1967 to 1977 under editor Ted Solotaroff.

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Association of Nigerian Authors

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad.

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Black Star Square

Black Star Square, also known as Independence Square, is a public square in Accra, Ghana, bordered by the Accra Sports Stadium and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.

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Cameron Duodu

Martin Cameron Duodu (born 24 May 1937)Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, pp.

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Cape Coast

Cape Coast, or Cabo Corso, is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of south Ghana.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Dorothy Pizer

Dorothy Pizer or Dorothy Padmore (c.1906 – 22 November 1964) was a British Jewish working-class anti-racist activist, secretary and publishing worker.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.

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Efua Sutherland

Efua Theodora Sutherland (27 June 1924 – 21 January 1996) was a Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) judges to have made outstanding achievements to social progress and development.

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Femi Osofisan

Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan (born June 1946), known as Femi Osofisan or F.O., is a Nigerian writer noted for his critique of societal problems and his use of African traditional performances and surrealism in some of his novels.

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Ga-Adangbe people

The Ga-Adangme, Gã-Adaŋbɛ, Ga-Dangme, or GaDangme are an ethnic group in Ghana and Togo.

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Gambaga

Gambaga is a small town in the Northern Region of Ghana.

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George Padmore

George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Ghanaian people

The Ghanaian people are a nationality originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast.

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Henry Swanzy

Henry Swanzy (14 June 1915 – 19 March 2004) was an Anglo-Irish radio producer in Britain's BBC General Overseas Service who is best known for his role in promoting West Indian literature particularly through the programme Caribbean Voices, where in 1946 he took over from Una Marson, the programme's first producer.

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Institute of African Studies

The Institute of African Studies on the Anne Jiagee road on campus of the University of Ghana at Legon is an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (born 22 June 1921) is a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer.

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Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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Kwesi Brew

Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew (27 May 1928 – 30 July 2007) was a Ghanaian poet and diplomat.

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Legon

Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian city Accra, is situated about north-east of the city center in the Accra Metropolis District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Литературный институт им.) is an institution of higher education in Moscow.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اِقبال) (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement.

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Nalerigu

Nalerigu is a small town in the East Mamprusi district, a district in the Northern Region of Ghana.

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Negro Digest

The Negro Digest, later renamed Black World, was an African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

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New African

New African is an English-language monthly news magazine based in London.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicolás Guillén

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer.

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Northern Region (Ghana)

The Northern Region is one of the ten regions of Ghana.

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Order of the Volta

The Order of the Volta is an order of merit from the Republic of Ghana.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pan African Writers' Association

The Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA), founded in November 1989, is a Ghana-based cultural institution "born in the larger crucible of Pan Africanism" that is an umbrella body of writers' associations on the African continent and the Diaspora.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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San Diego State University College of Arts & Letters

The San Diego State University College of Arts & Letters provides liberal arts education at SDSU.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet.

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The African (Conton novel)

The African is the 1964 debut novel by Sierra Leonean novelist and educator William Farquhar Conton.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is a school of University College London (UCL) specialised in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University of Education, Winneba

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) is a University in Winneba, Central Region of Ghana.

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University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian public universities.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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University of KwaZulu-Natal

The University of KwaZulu-Natal or UKZN is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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Wesley Girls' Senior High School

Wesley Girls' High School, Ghana, is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast, founded in 1836, and named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley.

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William Farquhar Conton

William Farquhar Conton (27 October 1925 – July 2002) was a Sierra Leonean educator, historian and novelist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atukwei_Okai

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