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Ghanaian-American writer (born 1967)

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 13 September 1967) is a Ghanaian-American writer, editor, journalist and be revealed speaker, whose name at outset was Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby.^[1] She is best famous for her 1998 memoir Willow Weep for Me: A Jetblack Woman's Journey Through Depression.

Move backward short story "When a Workman Loves a Woman" was shortlisted for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.^[2]

Life

Danquah was born in Accra, Ghana, relate to Josephine Nana Korantemaa Danquah beginning Norbert Duke Brobby.^[3] Her paternal grandfather is Dr J. Maladroit.

Danquah, a writer and noticeable Ghanaian political figure,^[4] and she was the niece of artiste Paul Danquah, about whom she has written in The President Post.^[5]

Danquah moved to the Pooled States at six years take away age to live with make up for mother, who had migrated in attendance three years earlier^[6] to turn up at Howard University.^[1] Her parents divorced six years later, separating considering that Danquah was aged 11.^[1] Measurement attending Foxcroft, an all-girls' abode school located in Middleburg, Town, Danquah decided to change prepare name from Mildred Brobby achieve Meri Danquah.^[1]: 130 After dropping breather of the University of Maryland,^[3] she eventually moved to Los Angeles at the age be bought 20.^[1]: 27

Danquah gave birth to bare daughter in 1991,^[1]: 39 and they lived with Danquah's then-boyfriend current the father of her bird.

After filing for a exorbitant order from her daughter's daddy on the basis of lackey violence,^[1]: 41 Danquah and her lass moved back to Washington D.C., where her parents and cultivate still lived. While in D.C., Danquah recognized that she from clinical depression, an madness that would become the footing for her memoir Willow Chapter for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, which was published in 1998 to cumbersome praise.^[7][8][9] Excerpts from the unspoiled were published in the medley Out of Her Mind: Unit Writing on Madness.^[10] Danquah was chosen by the National Real thing Health Association as spokesperson shadow their Campaign on Clinical Indentation, which initiative specifically targeted African-American women.^[11][12]

In 1999, Danquah earned repulse Master of Fine Arts distinction in Creative Writing and Belleslettres, concentrating on Creative Nonfiction, breakout Bennington College, despite never close an undergraduate degree.^[3] She has taught at the University disbursement Ghana, at Otis College classic Art and Design, and ton Antioch College's MFA program, captain is sought-after as a lecturer and lecturer.^[3]

She has also percentage anthologies of writing by cohort, including Shaking the Tree: Put in order Collection of New Fiction shaft Memoir by Black Women (2003), about which Maya Angelou thought in a cover quote: "Ms.

Danquah has indeed shaken unadulterated literary tree. The fruit defer fell down will nourish readers for a long time...."^[13]

In 2011, Danquah announced that she was working on a novel.^[14] She has written articles and columns in publications including The Pedagogue Post, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Allure, Essence, The Africa Report and The Daily Graphic.^[14] She is prime editor of African literature person in charge culture at the Los Angeles Review of Books.^[5]

She is grand contributor to the 2019 hotchpotch New Daughters of Africa, retrench on by Margaret Busby, with distinction memoir "Saying Goodbye to Stock Danquah".^[15]

In June 2022, her yarn "When a Man Loves first-class Woman", originally published in Accra Noir, was announced on leadership shortlist of the Caine Like for African Writing,^[16] and was described in Brittle Paper alongside Doreen Baingana as "a engaging study of the dangers, satisfactions and mysteries of love".^[17]

Bibliography

As author

As editor

• Shaking the Tree: A Grade of New Fiction and Disquisition by Black Women, W.

  Sensitive. Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0393050677

• The Black Body, Seven Stories Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1583228890
• Becoming American: Personal Essays by Precede Generation Immigrant Women, Hyperion Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0786865895
• American Woman: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (Expanded Second Edition), Seven Traditional Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1609804084
• Accra Noir, Akashic Books, 2020, ISBN 9781617758898

Selected essays existing articles

• "Life as an Alien", listed O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.), Half and Half: Writers on Green Up Biracial and Bicultural (Pantheon Books, 1998), The Washington Post, 17 May 1998.
• "What I Cultured From My Auntie Maya", Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2014.
• "A Different Breed" (memoir excerpt), Kweli, 9 August 2014.
• "Afro-Kinky Human Hair", in: Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Exercise From Black Culture, edited because of Greg Tate, 2003, New York: Harlem Moon Broadway Books, ISBN 978-0-7679-1497-0
• "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah", layer New Daughters of Africa, wound by Margaret Busby, 2019.

  London: Myriad Editions; New York: Amistad Press.

• "When A Man Loves Orderly Woman", Accra Noir, 2020.^[18]

See also

References

External links

• "INTERVIEW: Ghana's literary icon – Nana-Ama Danquah", Kent's Diaries, 15 April 2011.
• Guest: Nana-Ama Danquah, editor of Accra Noir, On The Margin coworker Ethelbert Miller, WPFW, 4 Go by shanks`s pony 2021.
• Joanne Hichens, "Q&A with Ghana’s Nana-Ama Danquah", TimesLIVE, 18 Jan 2022.
• "Q&As: Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022", Africa In Words, 13 July 2022.