Unexpected Joy at Dawn By Alex Agyei - Agyiri
UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN -ALEX AGYEI – AGYIRI Alex Agyei-Agyiri is a Ghanaian novelist, poet, and guest writer for the Writer’s Project of Ghana-born at Adamoribe in the Akwapin South District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. He is a product of the University of Ghana, Legion, and a legal practitioner. His works include the award-winning poems. “Passover”. “Ancestral faces” and “This death call” and adjudged to be among the best-selected poems for the BBC Arts and African poetry award for 1982 and 1984. His two collections of poetry won the Ghana Association of writer’s literary prize for literature in 1982 and the Valco Award for literature in 1982. Unexpected Joy at Dawn is his first novel and it won a Valco literacy award for literature for the best manuscripts in Ghana in 1988 under the title “Alien”. This novel was “commended” at 2005 Commonwealth writers’ prize, African Region. SETTING BACKGROUND OF THE NOVE...