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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.

Femi Abodunrin

Femi Abodunrin is a scholar of English and African literature. Some of his other works include Culture Ideology and Discourse (Bayreuth African Studies Series, 1996) and It Would Take Time: Conversations with Living Ancestors (Kraft Books, 2002).