Kwei-Armah grew up in West London, the son of parents who had emigrated from Grenada. He grew up rarely seeing black faces on television. Watching the TV series Roots, about an African man who is ...

Ayi Kwei Armah was born in 1939 to Fante-speaking parents in the port city of Takoradi, Ghana. He left Ghana in 1959 to attend the Groton School in Groton, MA. Afterwards, he attended Harvard.

Kwei Quartey, read by Simon Prebble, Tantor Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1341-5 The murder of a young med student brings Det. Insp. Darko Dawson from his police ...

Anne McElvoy and Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edith Hall and Peter Frankopan explore the idea of success in drama, literature and history and how that translates to the contemporary world. Show more ...