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Atukwei Okai

Died in 2018

Atukwei Okai was born on 15 March 1941 in Accra. He studied at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, then in London, where he obtained a postgraduate degree in 1971, and from 1971 taught Russian literature at the University of Ghana, where he became a professor and national poet. The first secretary general of the Pan African Writers' Association in 1989, a post he held until his death, he died in Accra on 13 July 2018.

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