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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.

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye is one of Africa's most prolific writers of novels, short stories and children's books. She has won The Sinclair Prize for Fiction and second place in the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature. She has also worked as a bookseller in East Africa.

Books authored by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

The Black Hand Gang

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

ISBN 9789966460165 | 64 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1997 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

A Farm Called Kishinev

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

ISBN 9789966254184 | 148 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

Growing Up at Lina School

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

ISBN 9789966464927 | 56 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 1988 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

ISBN 9789966465474 | 212 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1994 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

Street Life

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

ISBN 9789966463623 | 108 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1987 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

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