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Bediako Asare

  • Bediako Asare
Writer
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Ghana

Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author, initially from Ghana. He began his career working on local newspapers, then relocated to Dar es SalaamTanzania, to help launch The Nationalist newspaper.
In 1969 he published his novel Rebel, about the conflict between traditional ways and modernity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Writing in Africa Report, Sheila Wilson said of The Rebel: "The story is simple and the language unpretentious, and the impact of change and hope gives strength and quality to the novel."
 Asare's novel The Stubborn was published in Nairobi in 1976. Stephen H. Arnold, reviewing it in the African Book Publishing Record, noted that its intended audience was "15-18 year olds of East African ruling classes" and that: "The main themes are science versus superstition and the value of counsel from elders."[3]
 
·       A Husband for Esi Ellua, 1967
·       RebelHeinemann Educational BooksAfrican Writers Series no. 59, 1969
·       The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah, 1970
·       The Stubborn, Nairobi: East African Lit. Bureau, 1976.

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