Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh

Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh (6 February 1936 – 14 February 2011[1]) was a Ghanaian children's writer, publisher, educationist and politician. She was the recipient of a Noma Award honourable mention in 1980 for The Walking Calabash.[2]

Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana.[3] In the 1996 parliamentary elections she stood as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate in Kade, coming second with 37.9% of the vote.[4]

Works
  • Rivers of Ghana, 1979[5]
  • Kofizee Goes to School, 1978[6]
  • The Walking Calabash and Other Stories, 1977[7]
  • Mosquito Town, 1966

References
  1. "Mrs. Owusu-Nimoh laid to rest". Ghana News Agency, 8 May 2011.
  2. The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa: recent winning titles Archived 24 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Advise Children Against Accepting Lifts in Vehicles", GhanaWeb, 30 June 1998.
  4. Parliamentary Election Results Trend Kade Region Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Owusu-Nimoh, Mercy (1977). The rivers of Ghana. Kade, Eastern Region, Ghana: Monim Bookland. OCLC 4741642.
  6. Owusu-Nimoh, Mercy (1978). Kofizee goes to school. Tema: Ghana Pub. Corp. OCLC 34313029.
  7. Owusu-Nimoh, Mercy (1977). The Walking Calabash and other stories. Tema, Ghana: Ghana Pub. Corp. OCLC 7192234.


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