Kofi Aidoo is a Ghanaian writer. He was born in the 1950s at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area of Ghana

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 where he also began his Elementary Education at Asikwa. The first of nine children born to a senior touring officer at the Ghana Prisons Services; his interests in writing began at a very tender age writing short stories on his escapades with his father around the country. While studying at Anum Presbyterian Training College, his literal works found their way into the BBC-Africa Service

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He studied journalism part-time at the Ghana Institute of Journalism while working as a teacher in Accra

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, and published his first work Saworbeng, an anthology of stories interpersed with lays to mimic the traditional mode of story telling.

Works

• Saworbeng, Ghana Pub Corp, 1977
• Of Men and Ghosts, ISBN 978-9964-1-0342-2, Ghana Pub Corp, 1991

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