Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty Explained

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (born 1916) is a Ghanaian poet and writer.

Life

In 1958 Adali-Mortty joined the advisory committee of the international literary journal Black Orpheus.^[1]

Adali-Mortty was a contributor to the 1958 anthology Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, edited by Henry Swanzy,^{[2] [3]} and contributed both poetry and political commentary to the Legon Observer: for example, "A Spent Scare" (1967) was written in response to the coup that ended Nkrumah's rule.^[4]

Works

• "Ewe Poetry", Black Orpheus, No. 4 (1958), 36-45
• "The Spent Scare", The Legon Observer, 2:5 (3 March 1967), pp. 21–2
• (ed. with Kofi Awoonor) Messages: Poems from Ghana, Heinemann, 1971. African Writers Series 42
• "Change of Government to the Spoils System Again?", The Legon Observer 9: 4 (1974)
• 'Reply to Kwabena Manu's Rejoinder to "Change of Government to the Spoils System Again?"', The Legon Observer, 9:6 (1974), p. 166

Notes and References

1. Book: Albert S. Gérard. Albert S. Gérard. European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. 18 November 2012. 1986. John Benjamins Publishing. 978-963-05-3834-3. 809.
2. Swanzy, Henry (ed.), Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1958.
3. Smith, Victoria Ellen (ed.), Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, 2nd Edition, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2018.
4. Book: Albert S. Gérard. Albert S. Gérard. European language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. 18 November 2012. 1986. John Benjamins Publishing. 978-963-05-3834-3. 825.