Amu Djoleto

Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.

Life Amu Djoleto was born at Manyakpogunor, Manya Krobo, Ghana, the son of Frederick Badu, a Presbyterian minister, and Victoria Shome Tetteh, "a modest trader". At one point heading the Ministry of Education's publishing programme, he has continued to work for the Ministry of Education.

Djoleto contributed to the poetry anthologies Voices of Ghana (1958) and Messages (1970), and his poems were collected in Amid the Swelling Act. He is best known for his novels, the first of which was The Strange Man (1967).

Works

Novels The Strange Man, London, Heinemann, 1967. African Writers Series, no. 41. Money Galore, London [etc.]: Heinemann, 1975. African Writers Series, no. 160. Hurricane of Dust, 1987

Poetry Amid the Swelling Act, 1992

Children's books Obodai Sai, 1990 Twins in Trouble, 1991 The Frightened Thief, 1992 The Girl who Knows about Cars, 1996 Kofi Loses his Way, 1996 Akos and the Fire Ghost, 1998

Other English practice for the African student, 1967 (ed. with T. H. S. Kwami) West African Prose, Heinemann Educational Books, 1972. The Ghana Book Development Council: aims and objectives, 1976 Books and reading in Ghana, 1985