Ato Sekyi-Otu
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Ato Sekyi-Otu is a Ghana
ian post-colonial intellectual. Sekyi-Otu has worked at the York University
in Canada
for many years. He is best known for his work on Frantz Fanon
and Ayi Kwei Armah
. In 1996 he wrote an acknowledged classic in the literature on Fanon entitled 'Fanon's Dialectic of Experience'.
His work has been widely taken up in South Africa
and in the Caribbean
.
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
ian post-colonial intellectual. Sekyi-Otu has worked at the York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
for many years. He is best known for his work on Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
and Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...
. In 1996 he wrote an acknowledged classic in the literature on Fanon entitled 'Fanon's Dialectic of Experience'.
His work has been widely taken up in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
and in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
.
Published works
- Fanon's Dialectic of Experience (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996)