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.
Books authored by Meshack Asare
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Cat in Search of a Friend
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ISBN 9789988550189 | 30 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2000 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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Chipo and the Bird on the Hill
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A Tale of Ancient Zimbabwe
ISBN 9789988550448 | 35 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1984 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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The Cross Drums
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ISBN 9789988647063 | 105 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2008 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback
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Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret
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A Tale of old Ashanti Wisdom and Gold
ISBN 9789988550431 | 45 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
- L'appel de Sosu (Sosu's Call)
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ISBN 9789988550486 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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The Magic Goat
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ISBN 9789988550103 | 37 pages | 297 x 210 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1997 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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Noma's Sand
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A Tale from Lesotho
ISBN 9789988550561 | 38 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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Sosu's Call
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ISBN 9789988550097 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2001 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
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Tawia Goes to Sea
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ISBN 9789988647056 | 32 pages | 277 x 260mm | Colour Illustrations | 2007 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback
