Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

human

Ein sex anaa gender	female
Country wey e be citizen	Ghana
Given name	Meri
Family name	Danquah
Date of birth	13 September 1967
Place dem born am	Accra
Relative	J. B. Danquah, Paul Danquah
Languages dem dey speak, wrep anaa sign	English
Occupation	writer, editor, orator, journalist
Educate for	Foxcroft School, Bennington College
Personal pronoun	L484

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (dem born am 13 September 1967) be Ghanaian-American writer, editor, journalist den public speaker, wey na ein name for birth be Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby. She be best known for ein 1998 memoir Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression. Dem shortlist ein short story "When a Man Loves a Woman" for de 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.

Bibliography

As author

• Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, ISBN 9780393045673

As editor

• Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women, W. W. Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0393050677
• The Black Body, Seven Stories Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1583228890
• Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women, Hyperion Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0786865895
• American Woman: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (Expanded Second Edition), Seven Stories Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1609804084
• Accra Noir, Akashic Books, 2020, ISBN 9781617758898

Selected essays and articles

• "Life as an Alien", in O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.), Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (Pantheon Books, 1998), The Washington Post, 17 May 1998.
• "What I Learned From My Auntie Maya", Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2014.
• "A Different Breed" (memoir excerpt), Kweli, 9 August 2014.
• "Afro-Kinky Human Hair", in: Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture, edited by Greg Tate, 2003, New York: Harlem Moon Broadway Books, ISBN 978-0-7679-1497-0
• "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah", in New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, 2019. London: Myriad Editions; New York: Amistad Press.
• "When A Man Loves A Woman", Accra Noir, 2020.

External links

• "INTERVIEW: Ghana's literary icon – Nana-Ama Danquah", Kent's Diaries, 15 April 2011.
• Guest: Nana-Ama Danquah, editor of Accra Noir, On The Margin with Ethelbert Miller, WPFW, 4 March 2021.
• Joanne Hichens, "Q&A with Ghana’s Nana-Ama Danquah", TimesLIVE, 18 January 2022.
• "Q&As: Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022", Africa In Words, 13 July 2022.