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Kojo Laing
B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing (born 1 July 1946) is a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English.〔Moussa Issifou, ("Beyond the Language Debate in Postcolonial Literature: Linguistic Hybridity in Kojo B. Laing’s ''Woman of the Aeroplanes''" ), ''The Journal of Pan African Studies'', vol. 6, no. 5, October 2013, p. 47.〕 His first two novels in particular – ''Search Sweet Country'' (1986) and ''Woman of the Aeroplanes'' (1988) – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.〔(B. Kojo Laing (Bernard Kojo Laing) Biography - (1946– ), (Bernard Kojo Laing) ), ''Search Sweet Country'', ''Woman of the Aeroplanes''.〕
==Early life and career==
Laing was born in Kumasi, capital of Ghana's Ashanti region,〔(Maureen Abotsi, "B. Kojo Laing" ), Ghana Nation, 13 September 2013.〕 the eldest son and fourth of the six children of George Ekyem Ferguson Laing (an Anglican priest who became the first African rector of the Anglican Theological College in Ashanti) and Darling Egan.〔Onyekan Owomoyela, ("Laing, B. (Bernard Ebenezer) Kojo" ), ''The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945'', Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 124-125.〕 Baptized as Bernard Ebenezer, he later stopped using his English Christian name, favouring his African identity instead.〔("B. Kojo Laing" ), Ghana Visions.〕 After some early education in Accra, Laing in 1957 went to continue his primary and secondary schooling in Scotland, attending Bonhill Primary School and the Vale of Leven Academy in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire.〔 He graduated from Glasgow University in 1968 with a master's degree, before returning to Ghana and joining the civil service, remaining there until 1979. He subsequently worked for five years as an administrative secretary of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana-Legon and in 1984 became head of Saint Anthony’s School in Accra,〔
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