On Tuesday August 29, 2017, my fifth Detective Chief Inspector Darko Dawson novel will go on sale. It’s called DEATH BY HIS GRACE, and like the other books in the detective series, it’s set in Ghana, my birthplace. If the fourth novel, GOLD OF OUR FATHERS, took Darko far from home, this one comes too close. Darko’s wife, Christine, is Katherine’s first cousin. So, as Darko wrestles with the case, family members inject their emotions and opinions into the investigation, includ

A few photos from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 9 & 10, 2016. People came, despite the rain on Saturday 4/9/16. Bovard Auditorium, where the LA Times Book prize ceremony was held Inside the auditorium; ceremony officiated by the venerable Patt Morrison of the LA Times Chigozie Obioma, fellow African author, winner of the LAT prize for first fiction It rained all day Saturday, but Sunday started out fine and managed to stay that way Walking past the USC Scho

Looks like it’s hip to be an African writer in 2014, particularly in the diaspora. Publishers are snapping up their books like hotcakes. The Africa Report has an article called Words to live by in 2014 pointing us to how many books are expected in 2014 from the likes of Zakes Mda (Rachel’s Blue); Sarah Lotz (The Three); Teju Cole (Every Day is For the Thief). MUKOMA WA NGUGI (Photo africulture.com) Poet and novelist Mukoma wa Ngugi  (Black Star Nairobi, Nairobi Heat)–who by t