Kofi Aidoo

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Kofi Aidoo is a Ghanaian writer. He was born in the 1950s at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area of Ghana, where he also began his Elementary Education at Asikwa. He initially wrote short stories based on experiences with his father traveling around the country. He studied at Anum Presbyterian Training College and later studied journalism part-time at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Oyekan Owomoyela, A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures, p. 39. University of Nebraska Press, 1993, ISBN   978-0-8032-8604-7
  2. Richard Rathbone, Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana, Yale University Press, 1993, ISBN   978-0-300-05504-7, p. 203