Francis Selormey

Born in Dzelukofe, in the Volta Region of Ghana,{{cite book|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr|url-access=registration|accessdate=8 November 2012|year=1995|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr/page/1009 1009]}} Selormey was brought up in Keta. He attended a Catholic primary school and then St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast. He studied physical education at the University of Ghana and in Germany before becoming a teacher. He was Senior Sports Organizer for the Central Region from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 he became a scriptwriter for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation. At some point he returned to sports administration, as Director of Sports for the Sports Council of Ghana. Married with six children, he spent the last years of his life as a farmer before his death in 1983.{{cite book|author=Anders Pettersson|title=Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Notions of literature across times and cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2muIgoqGR1kC&pg=RA3-PA11|accessdate=8 November 2012|year=2006|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-018932-2|pages=10–11}}One source gives his year of death as 1988: {{cite book|author=Kofi Owusu|editor=Simon Gikandi|title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M73RUGbFsCYC&pg=PA679|accessdate=8 November 2012|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-23019-3|page=679|chapter=Selormey, Francis}}

The Narrow Path: An African Childhood, was published in Heinemann's African Writers Series in 1966. Semiautobiographical, it was "the Bildungsroman of a Ghanaian school boy",{{cite book|author=Albert S. Gérard|author-link=Albert S. Gérard|title=European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6PrqVKaZtgC&pg=PA831|accessdate=8 November 2012|year=1986|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-963-05-3834-3|page=831}} who is "caught between his love for an overly strict father who insists on Christian, Western ways and his own appreciation for other, traditional influences."

• The Narrow Path: An African Childhood, Heinemann, 1966. African Writers Series, no. 27.
• Towards a United Africa (film-script)
• The Great Lake (film-script)

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