| LC control no. | no 95018451 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9379.9.D25 |
| Personal name heading | Darko, Amma, 1956- |
| Associated country | Ghana |
| Associated place | Germany |
| Birth date | 1956-06-26 |
| Place of birth | Tamale (Ghana) |
| Affiliation | University of Science and Technology (Ghana) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Essayists |
| Found in | Beyond the horizon, 1995: t.p. (Amma Darko) p. iv (b. 1956 in Tamale, Ghana) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Darko, Amma; fiction writer; born 26 June 1956 in Tamale, Ghana; graduated in industrial design the University of Science and Technology in Ghana (1980); spent seven years in Germany; wrote her first novel in Germany- Beyond the Horizon; it was published in German translation as Der Verkufte Traum (1991); second book- Housemaid, published in English (1998); third novel- Faceless; sequel to Faceless- Not Without Flowers (2007); she has written a significant number of essays on the changing environment of Accra and Ghana, Pan-Africanism) |
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