Nana Nyarko Boateng is a Writer, Poet, and a Social Entrepreneur. She writes and works to celebrate the human spirit and to promote our bottomless capacity for change. She has worked in Media as a Broadcast Journalist and a Newspaper Editor. She has also served in the Creative Arts and the Publishing industry as a Consultant, a Programs Executive, a Publishing Assistant and a Freelance Writer. She studied English and Political Science at the University of Ghana. Nana currently manages the Gird Center, a Resource and Publication Center based in Accra. She believes in breeding and spending beauty. Some of her writing and poetry has appeared in: Reflections: An Anthology; Lynne Rienner Publishers, United States, January 2013. Summoning The Rain, Anthology; Femrite, Uganda, May 2012. Look where you have come to sit, Anthology; Wolei Publishers, Ghana, March 2011. Defiled sacredness Anthology; Mensa Press, UK, September 2010. We are one from one place Anthology; Mensa Press, UK, September 2010.
See footage below of Nana Nyarko’s recital, reading and narration at the book slam held on International Women’s Day.