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 a poet, artist, filmaker, television producer and journalist who has written for the Weekly Spectator, Wind Magazine, and The Afro American newspaper, and has appeared as a guest analyst on numerous television and radio stations including Vibe FM, Gold FM, and GTV. He is the creator of SMASH-TV on GTV. 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. The cultural maverick, the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, after his second of several encounters with Achampong in the late 1980s, told a ‘Solid Black’ radio program host in Ghana of the poet’s writing style: “he does acrobatics with the English language. That is how Africans mus’ be. Whatever it is that has been pushed onto you, you have to excel at it and then reproduce it in your own unique African way. And that is what he is doing.” 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], the inspirational nonfiction ‘Empowernomics: understanding the system of God’s purpose for mankind’ and ‘My Kikuyu Princess’. Others are the second novel ‘venusplazadotcom’, the nonfiction ‘Adinkra (ī'kŏn')-cepts: [concept ikons of the Asante Akan of West Africa]’ and 'The Blight'.Currently, he produces/directs "ElderSpeak" for Fox's Good TV )Comcast Digital Channel 206) and 'The Gene C Bradford Hour' on WOLB 1010. He live in Baltimore.