Celebrating Ghanaian Writers- Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Kinna Reads, one of my all-time favorite literary blogs, is celebrating Ghanaian literature this week.  I wanted to add to this digital fête by highlighting Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, a Ghanaian-American writer.  As a mother of an Ivoirian-American daughter, I am particularly interested in the voices of first-generation immigrant African women to the United States.  

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Danquah, 46, immigrated to the United States from Ghana when she was six-years-old.  She offers a unique and compelling perspective.  She is the editor of several anthologies including Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women and Shaking the Tree; A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women. Perhaps her most seminal work is Willow Weep for Me; A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression which chronicles her clinical depression within the context of  being a woman of color with a health challenge historically not associated with Black women.

 Here is link to learn more about Danquah and her work http://aalbc.com/authors/meri_danquah.html and here is link to a presentation she gave in 2003 about her journey with depression:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AelCishP3PI

And here, of course, is a link to Kinna Reads:  http://kinnareads.wordpress.com/

Discover Ghana through its great writers !