Mamle Kabu
"In his travels to Ghana, Koye Oyedeji encountered several members of the new crop of literary talent making their presence felt in the country and beyond.
On the surface, a whole calendar of celebrations dedicated to 50 years of independence in Ghana appears to be the reserve of visitors, tourists and dignitaries. Life for the nationals rolls on without much hue and cry and the measure of change continues to be both a gradual and residual process, like the turn of a season, a foreboding dry period that gently rumbles into rainy downpour. Or perhaps, in Ghana’s case, vice versa.
The same you could argue could be said of Ghana’s great literary canon. The changing of its guard will not be marked by calendar. A corpus of works by such names as, Ayi Kwei Armah, Kofi Awoonor and Kofi Anyidoho amongst others will not be replicated overnight.
In the fervour of a week in which Accra was hosting dignitaries from all over Africa and the rest of the world, I went off in search of those quiet individuals that were hinting to have big voices in years to come.
In Accra I meet the talented Mamle Kabu, born in Ghana; she studied in the UK and spent ten years there before returning home in 1992. A writer of Ghanaian and German descent, she had been writing fiction and poetry for over ten years now but feels that more opportunities arose with the rise of the internet, “Its relevance is even more to us [Ghanaians], because we are less connected to an international scene”."
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