Amu Djoleto
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Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.{{cite book|editor=Sharon Malinowski|title=Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJ8jAQAAIAAJ|access-date=18 November 2012|year=1994|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-7788-2|page=194}}
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". He was educated at Accra Academy and St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast before reading English at the University of Ghana. He joined Ghana's Ministry of Education in the 1960s as a teacher and education officer. After studying textbook production at the Institute of Education, University of London, he returned to Ghana to edit the Ghana Teachers' Journal.{{cite book|editor=G. D. Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot|title=Student Encyclopedia of African Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RPQpYJcI1I4C&pg=PA109|access-date=18 November 2012|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33580-8|pages=109–110}} At one point heading the Ministry of Education's publishing programme, he has continued to work for the Ministry of Education.{{cite book|author=S. A. Amu Djoleto|title=The Strange Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9kNP94hVigC&pg=PA286|access-date=18 November 2012|year=1968|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=978-0-435-90041-0|page=286}}
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
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=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
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Category:Alumni of the Accra Academy
Category:20th-century Ghanaian poets
Category:20th-century Ghanaian male writers