Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah was born to Fante-speaking parents in Ghana, with royal Ga ancestry.
He attended Achimota School before leaving Ghana in 1959 for Groton School in Massachusetts.
Armah graduated from Harvard University with a sociology degree, then worked as a translator in Algeria for Révolution Africaine.
He returned to Ghana in 1964, working as a scriptwriter and teacher.
Between 1967-1968, he edited Jeune Afrique magazine in Paris.
Armah earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University (1968-1970).
Throughout the 1970s-1980s, he taught in Tanzania, Lesotho, Senegal, and at American universities including Amherst and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
