What novel did an author who was featured in the Voices of Ghana and later became a journalist write?
Voices of Ghana Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955-57 was "the first Ghanaian literary anthology of poems, stories, plays and essays". Edited by Henry Swanzy and published in 1958 by the Ghanaian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, "Voices of Ghana" contained works that had been broadcast on the Ghana radio programme "The Singing Net" between 1955 and 1957. The collection opened with an essay, "The Poetry of Drums", by Kwabena Nketia, and the writers anthologised included Frank Parkes, Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, Amu Djoleto and Efua T. Sutherland.
Siku Njema Siku Njema is a popular Swahili novel written by the renowned Kenyan author, Ken Walibora. The novel was published in 1996 and saw Walibora become an instant household name in Swahili fiction. Written in the first person, the book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab. Being a child born out of wedlock does not make life easier for him as he is chided by his schoolmates in a culture that frowns upon illegitimate children.