Richest Ghanaian Authors and Writers: Net Worth and Literary Legacy

One of Ghana's most celebrated poets and novelists, whose literary output spans five decades. He served as Ghana's Ambassador to the United Nations, Cuba and Brazil, bringing an international dimension to a career that was already one of the most distinguished in African letters. He was killed in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi. Read full profile →

The playwright, poet and novelist whose Our Sister Killjoy (1977) was decades ahead of contemporary conversations about African feminism and the diaspora experience. Her work is studied in universities across Africa, Europe and North America, and she is widely considered one of the most important African writers of the twentieth century. Read full profile →

The author of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), one of the defining novels of post-colonial African literature. His unflinching examination of corruption and moral decay in newly independent Ghana was so sharp it made him persona non grata in his own country for years. Read full profile →

Ghanaian-American crime novelist and physician whose Darko Dawson series, set in Accra and in Ghana's rural communities, has built an international audience. He is one of the few Ghanaian writers who has broken into the commercial crime fiction market globally. Read full profile →