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Atukwei Okai
Atukwei (John) Okai (born 1941) is a Ghanaian poet, cultural activist and academic. He is Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers' Association, and former president of the Ghana Association of Writers. His early work was published under the name John Okai. With his poems rooted in the oral tradition,〔Ernest Dela Aglanu, ("We were rapping before rap came – Prof. Atukwei Okai" ), Myjoyonline, 20 March 2011 (via Modern Ghana).〕 he is generally acknowledged to be the first real performance poets to emerge from Africa,〔(Governors ), Millennium Excellence Foundation.〕 and his work has been called "also politically radical and socially conscious, one of his great concerns being Pan-Africanism".〔("Atukwei Okai (John Atukwei Okai) Biography" ), jrank.org.〕 His performances on radio and television worldwide include an acclaimed 1975 appearance at Poetry International at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, where he shared the stage with US poets Stanley Kunitz and Robert Lowell, and Nicolas Guillen of Cuba.〔
==Early life and education==
Atukwei Okai was born in Accra, Ghana, and from the age of three for eight years lived in the country's Northern Region, where his father (Ga by birth) was a school headmaster in Gambaga.〔Femi Akomolafe, ("An Interview With Professor Atukwei Okai" ), Ghana Politics, 6 November 2014.〕 Okai was educated at the Gambaga Native Authority School, Nalerigu Middle Boys' School, and then at Methodist Middle Boys' School in Accra and Accra High School.
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