| LC control no. | n 79083576 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9379.9.A7 |
| Personal name heading | Armah, Ayi Kwei, 1939- |
| Variant(s) | Armah, George Aryee-Quaye, 1939- Ayi-Kwei-Armah, 1939- |
| Associated country | Ghana |
| Associated place | United States |
| Birth date | 1939 |
| Place of birth | Sekondi (Ghana) |
| Affiliation | Prince of Wales College and School (Achimota, Ghana) Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Harvard University Columbia University University of Massachusetts Amherst National University of Lesotho |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Translators Poets Essayists |
| Found in | Author's The beautyful ones are not yet born, 1968. L'Age d'or n'est pas pour demain de Ayi Kwei Armah, c1985: cover (Ayi-Kwei-Armah) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Armah, Ayi Kwei; George Aryee Quaye Armah; novelist, translator, poet, essayist; born 1939 in Sekondi Takoradi, Ghana; attended Prince of Wales College (now Achimota School) near Accra (1953-1958); worked as a news writer for Radio Ghana (1959); won a Carnegie Corporation scholarship to join Groton School in Massachusetts (1959); graduated with BA degree in sociology from Harvard (1963); left America for Algeria to work as a translator for the magazine ReĢvolution Africaine (1963); employed as a script writer at Ghana Television (1964); editor at the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique (1967); graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Writing and Translation (1970); taught for a semester at the University of Massachusetts before leaving for Kenya and then Tanzania, where he taught at the College of National Education in Chang'ombe (until 1976); taught creative and expository writing at the National University of Lesotho (1976)) |
| Associated language | fre eng |
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