The Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi was born in 1989 in Mampong, a small town in the Ashanti region that functioned as the residence of the Kings of Ashanti in tandem with the city of Kumasi. Her family moved to the US in 1991 after Gyasi’s father received his doctorate from
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is an author, filmmaker, and art historian. She was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her grandfather is king of the Ghanaian region Akyem Abuakwa. She studied African Art History and Political Science, worked for the UN in New York, and is now active worldwide mainly as
born 1988 in Accra, is a speculative fiction writer, afrofuturist, social entrepreneur, and virtual reality developer. His digital hypermedia publishing platform and creative studio AfroCyberPunk explores innovative forms of communication and artistic expression with a technological bent. He also conceives workshops, and aims to reintroduce traditional African perspectives to futurist
Amma Darko comes from the Central region of Ghana. She was born in 1956 and grew up in the capital city st1:city> st1:place>Accra /st1:place> /st1:city>. She holds a degree in Industrial Art from the st1:place> st1:placetype>College /st1:placetype> of st1:placename>Art /st1:placename> /st1:place> of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
