Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (dem born am 13 September 1967) be Ghanaian-American writer, editor, journalist den public speaker, wey na ein name for birth be Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby.Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama (1998). Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression (First ed.). W.W. Norton & Co. p. 103. ISBN 9780393045673. She be best known for ein 1998 memoir Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression. Dem shortlist ein short story "When a Man Loves a Woman" for de 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing."The AKO Caine Prize announces its 2022 shortlisted writers". The AKO Caine Prize. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.

 Bibliography 

 As author 
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, ISBN 9780393045673

 As editor 
 Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women, W. W. Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0393050677
 The Black Body, Seven Stories Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1583228890
 Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women, Hyperion Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0786865895
 American Woman: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (Expanded Second Edition), Seven Stories Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1609804084
 Accra Noir, Akashic Books, 2020, ISBN 9781617758898

 Selected essays and articles 
 "Life as an Alien", in O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.), Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (Pantheon Books, 1998), The Washington Post, 17 May 1998.
 "What I Learned From My Auntie Maya", Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2014.
 "A Different Breed" (memoir excerpt), Kweli, 9 August 2014.
 "Afro-Kinky Human Hair", in: Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture, edited by Greg Tate, 2003, New York: Harlem Moon Broadway Books, ISBN 978-0-7679-1497-0
 "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah", in New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, 2019. London: Myriad Editions; New York: Amistad Press.
 "When A Man Loves A Woman", Accra Noir, 2020."When A Man Loves A Woman". Accra Noir (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2022.

 References 
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Category:Living people
Category:Ghanaians
Category:1967 births
Category:Ghanaian writers
Category:Women anthologists
Category:Women essayists
Category:Women memoirists
Category:Ghanaian women short story writers
Category:People wey komot Accra
Category:Ghanaian emigrants to de United States
Category:Writers wey komot Accra
Category:American women memoirists
Category:American people of Ghanaian descent
Category:Bennington College alumni
Category:University of Ghana people

External links
 "INTERVIEW: Ghana's literary icon – Nana-Ama Danquah", Kent's Diaries, 15 April 2011.
 Guest: Nana-Ama Danquah, editor of Accra Noir, On The Margin with Ethelbert Miller, WPFW, 4 March 2021.
 Joanne Hichens, "Q&A with Ghana’s Nana-Ama Danquah", TimesLIVE, 18 January 2022.
 "Q&As: Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022", Africa In Words, 13 July 2022.