Kojo Laing

Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Eswatini)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.3: Anglophone African Writing and Culture: Subsaharan.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 1 Jul 1946
Died 20 Apr 2017
Activity c. 1970-2017

Places

Active in Ghana

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Resources

Ghana-born novelist and poet Kojo Laing was born Bernard Ebenezer Laing on 1 July, 1946 in Kumasi as his parents’ fourth child and eldest son, and died in April 2017. He spent the first five years of schooling in Accra and was then sent to Scotland where he attended secondary school. Before starting his writing career, he earned a degree in political science and history from Glasgow University (1968), a diploma in management from the Ghana College of Management (1970) and a certificate in rural management from Birmingham University in the UK (1975). Upon his return to Ghana in 1968 he worked as a headmaster in Accra, then as a district administration officer (1969-1972) and district chief executive in the Ashanti region (1972-1978)…

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Citation: Ferreira-Meyers, Karen. "Kojo Laing". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14119, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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