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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.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigerian television producer, writer of satirical novels, children's tales, and plays. In 1994 Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned by order of the dictator Sani Abacha. He had strongly defended the rights of the Ogoni people and criticized the government's oil policy with Royal Dutch/Shell. Despite wide international protests, Saro-Wiwa was hanged after a show trial with other eight Ogoni rights activists in Port Harcourt, on November 10, 1995.

Books authored by Ken Saro-Wiwa

Basi and Company

A Modern African Folktale

ISBN 9781870716000 | 228 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1987 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

A Bride for Mr B

ISBN 9781870716260 | 100 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1993 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

Four Farcical Plays

ISBN 9781870716093 | 95 pages | 140 x 250 mm | 1989 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

Genocide in Nigeria

ISBN 9781870716222 | 104 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1992 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

ISBN 9781870716017 | 164 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1987 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

ISBN 9781870716086 | 144 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1989 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

Mr B Goes to Lagos

ISBN 9781870716055 | 52 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1989 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

Mr B's Mattress

ISBN 9781870716246 | 56 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1992 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

Segi Finds the Radio

ISBN 9781870716123 | 56 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1991 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

A Shipload of Rice

ISBN 9781870716130 | 60 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1991 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

The Singing Anthill

Ogoni Folk Tales

ISBN 9781870716154 | 144 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1991 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

The Transistor Radio

ISBN 9781870716062 | 52 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1989 | Saros International Publishers, Nigeria | Paperback

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