Francis Selormey

Francis Selormey (15 April 1927 – 1983) was a Ghanaian novelist, teacher, scriptwriter and sports administrator.^[1]

Life[]

Born in Dzelukofe, in the Volta Region of Ghana,^[2] Selormey was brought up in Keta. He attended a Catholic primary school and then St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast. He studied physical education at the University of Ghana and in Germany before becoming a teacher. He was Senior Sports Organizer for the Central Region from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 he became a scriptwriter for the . At some point he returned to sports administration, as Director of Sports for the . Married with six children, he spent the last years of his life as a farmer before his death in 1983.^[1]^[3]

The Narrow Path: An African Childhood, was published in Heinemann's African Writers Series in 1966. Semiautobiographical, it was "the Bildungsroman of a Ghanaian school boy",^[4] who is "caught between his love for an overly strict father who insists on Christian, Western ways and his own appreciation for other, traditional influences."^[2]

Works[]

The Narrow Path: An African Childhood, Heinemann, 1966. African Writers Series, no. 27.
Towards a United Africa (film-script)
The Great Lake (film-script)

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Anders Pettersson (2006). Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Notions of literature across times and cultures. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-3-11-018932-2. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature. Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 1009. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
^ One source gives his year of death as 1988: Kofi Owusu (2003). "Selormey, Francis". In Simon Gikandi (ed.). The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 679. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
^ Albert S. Gérard (1986). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 831. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3. Retrieved 8 November 2012.

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[Pettersson2006-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Anders Pettersson (2006). Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Notions of literature across times and cultures. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-3-11-018932-2. Retrieved 8 November 2012.

[M-W1995-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature. Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 1009. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6. Retrieved 8 November 2012.

[Gikandi2003-3] One source gives his year of death as 1988: Kofi Owusu (2003). "Selormey, Francis". In Simon Gikandi (ed.). The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 679. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3. Retrieved 8 November 2012.

[Gérard1986-4] Albert S. Gérard (1986). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 831. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3. Retrieved 8 November 2012.

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