Nana S. Achampong

Journalist Nana S. Achampong, a graduate of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, is also known in different obscure corners of the world as a filmmaker, a fine artist, a music producer, a writer and a radio/television producer/director. It is obvious though after combing through the general body of his works that his first love is the art of writing. Little wonder, he dropped out of graduate school in the middle of an MBA program in 1993 to publish his own monthly entertainment magazine, ‘The Wind’, which was dedicated exclusively to new literary writings and the urban African arts scene. Achampong’s works include his first book of verse, ‘The Equilibrists’, published by Leroy Coubagey in 1995 to rave critical reviews, ‘Floating’ [poetry], and ‘Dream a Song’ were published ten years later, opening the gates to a flood of prolificacy, Sun of God’, [a play in five acts] about the debacle in the Congo, exploring the history of greed for power through the mad pursuit of copper, the inspirational nonfiction ‘Empowernomics: understanding the system of God’s purpose for mankind’ and ‘My Kikuyu Princess’. Others are the second novel ‘venusplazadotcom’, an eerie, disturbing and misty introspective of the immigrant underground in Maryland [as seen through the lives of an intergalactic cast whose incursions into CyberSpace, the supernatural, and the back streets of Baltimore leave behind a trail of darkness and chills], the nonfiction ‘Adinkra (ī'kŏn')-cepts: [concept ikons of the Asante

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