Selormey, Francis

Selormey, Francis

▪ Ghanaian author
born April 15, 1927, Dzelukofe, Gold Coast [now in Ghana]
died 1983?

      Ghanaian writer and teacher whose semiautobiographical novel, The Narrow Path: An African Childhood (1966), was hailed as a distinguished addition to African literature.

      Selormey began his career as a physical-education teacher and administrator. His first published work was “The Witch,” a story published in Okyeame in 1965. The Narrow Path, written with freshness, simplicity, and disarming honesty, tells of the vain search for love of a young man raised by an overly strict father. It has been praised for its humour and pathos and its study of the parent–child relationship. Selormey later was a feature and script writer for the Ghana Film Corporation.

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