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.
Mabel Dove Danquah Mabel Dove Danquah (1905–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist." She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in "The Times of West Africa"; "Dama Dumas" in the "African Morning Post"; "Ebun Alakija" in the "Nigerian Daily Times"; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the "Accra Evening News". Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly.