J. Benibengor Blay

John Benibengor Blay (born 1915, date of death unknown) was a Ghanaian journalist, writer, publisher and politician, who has been called "the father of popular writing in Ghana". His work encompasses fiction, poetry and drama published in chapbooks that have been compared with Onitsha Market Literature.

Life and career Blay was born in Half Assini, Western Ghana, and educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.

He began writing poetry in 1937, publishing stories from the early 1940s onwards. Some of his work was published by his own publishing company, the Benibengor Book Agency, Aboso.

He later became a politician, and in 1958 Blay was elected to the Ghanaian National Assembly. He later served as Minister for Art and Culture (1965–66) under Kwame Nkrumah, c. 1976