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Kojo Laing

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 30 1946

Died: 1919 04 20172017

B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. His first two novels in particular – Search Sweet Country and Woman of the Aeroplanes – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.

Kojo Laing

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 30 1946

Died: 1919 04 20172017

B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. His first two novels in particular – Search Sweet Country and Woman of the Aeroplanes – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.

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The Big Book of Science Fiction

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Woman of the Aeroplanes

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Godhorse

Utopiae 2005