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Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. 1982 and the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award, the 1999 Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

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Nigerian writer Chukwuemeka Ike was awarded the 2008 Fonlon-Nichols Award at the African Literature Association meeting in Illinois during April. Previous winners of the award include Niyi Osundare, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Wole Soyinka.

Dancing Pencils Writing Club

Books edited by Dancing Pencils Writing Club

Budding Words. An Anthology

Edited by Dancing Pencils Writing Club

ISBN 9781869008710 | 60 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | umSinsi Press, South Africa | Paperback

Creative Minds for Creative Writing

Edited by Dancing Pencils Writing Club

ISBN 9781869006402 | 72 pages | 280 x 210 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2005 | umSinsi Press, South Africa | Paperback

L'abre. A Collector's Piece

Edited by Dancing Pencils Writing Club

ISBN 9781869008864 | 76 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | | Paperback

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