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Name
  
Benjamin Kwakye


Role
  
Novelist

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Education
  
Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School

Books
  
The Clothes of Nakedness, The Other Crucifix: A Novel, SUN BY NIGHT, Legacy of Phantoms, Eyes of the Slain Woman

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Benjamin Kwakye (born 7 January 1967) is a Ghanaian novelist. His first novel, The Clothes of Nakedness, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa. His novel The Sun by Night won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa. His novel The Other Crucifix won the 2011 IPPY award.

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Kwakye was born in Accra, Ghana. He graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He practises law around Chicago, and is a director of the African Education Initiative.

Works

  • The Clothes of Nakedness, Heinemann Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-435-91201-7
  • The Sun by Night, Africa World Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59221-350-4
  • The Other Crucifix, Ayebia Publishing, 2010; Lynne Rienner Pub, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9562401-2-5
  • Legacy of Phantoms, Africa World Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59221-800-4

    • References

    Benjamin Kwakye Wikipedia
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