Name Amu Djoleto | Role Writer | |
Books Money Galore, The strange man, Hurricane of dust, Girl Who Knows About Cars, The Frightened Thief | ||
Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.
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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. 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).