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Spectrum Writer To Release Novel
Ambassador
Joseph Amamoo
Author’s Biography
“My writing credo: He who writes only to make money with no intention of making a contribution through writing towards making the world a better place for all of us, is a pimp, albeit a literary pimp.”
JOSEPH GODSON AMAMOO was born and educated in Ghana, West Africa, studied law in London and was called to the English Bar and the Ghana Bar. He has worked as a journalist and diplomat in London at 28 was Ghana’s first ambassador to Hungary, accredited also to International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria (one of the youngest ambassadors then in the world) as editor of the Ghanaian Times, Ghana’s leading daily newspaper, as a government minister, and finally as a political prisoner for fifteen, horrendous months, following the military overthrow of his democratically elected government in Ghana.
After his release, he practiced law but left Ghana for England to escape further arrest by the military regime. For 11 years he worked as race equality officer then as a community/meditation officer for the London Borough of Hackney. He has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and America. He is the author of seven other works. His interests are classical music, art galleries, museums, reading, walking and boxing. Since 1996, he has lived in Chicago where he continues to write and lecture.
‘THE QUEENS MEN’
A botched kidnap in an African state leads to the incarceration of the U.S. ambassador and an American graduate student in Tropical Agriculture attached to the local national university. Other victims of the kidnap include an attractive, young African heiress of her tribe’s throne, her elder and a government minister. The freeing of the hostages ends with the death of the leader of the kidnappers and his right-hand man.
Other books by Mr. Amamoo. ‘The New Ghana’, ‘The Ghanaian Revolution’, ‘The Chocolate Lady’.
For more information on the book contact Mr. Amamoo via his e-mail address jafint@hotmail.com
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