Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955–57 was "the first Ghanaian literary anthology of poems, stories, plays and essays".[1] Edited by Henry Swanzy and published in 1958 by the Ghanaian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,[2]Voices of Ghana contained works that had been broadcast on the Ghana radio programmes The Singing Net, Sound Judgement and Akan Theatre (later Ghana Theatre) between 1955 and 1957. The collection opened with an essay, "The Poetry of Drums", by Kwabena Nketia,[3] and the writers anthologised included Frank Parkes, A. W. Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, Amu Djoleto, Efua T. SutherlandRobert K. Gardiner and Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty.[1][4] According to Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, the anthology was Ghana's declaration of its "literary achievement" and was "bound to lead to intense literary awakening throughout the coast".[5]
Second edition 2018edit
To mark the 60th anniversary of the original publication Voices of Ghana was edited by Victoria Ellen Smith and published by James Currey, with a Preface by Mustapha Abdul-Hamid and a Foreword by Atukwei Okai.[4]
Referencesedit
^ abAngmor, Charles (1996). Contemporary Literature in Ghana 1911–1978: A Critical Evaluation. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. pp. 19–20. ISBN9964-978-20-0.
^Henry Swanzy (ed.), Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1958.
^Anyidiho, Kofi (2000), "National Identity and the Language of Metaphor", in Kofi Anyidoho and James Gibbs (eds), FonTomFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Film (Matatu Nos 21–22), Rodopi, p. 12.
^Dodd, Jeffrey (2020), "Voices of Ghana, 2nd Edition", Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 54:2, 345–346, DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1731183.
External linksedit
Victoria Ellen Smith (ed.), Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, 2nd Edition, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2018
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