Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. 1982 and the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award, the 1999 Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance. Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

Available from Michigan State University Press, by Meshack Asare:
	Chipo and the Bird on the Hill A Tale of Ancient Zimbabwe Meshack Asare
	Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret A Tale of old Ashanti Wisdom and Gold Meshack Asare
	Noma's Sand Meshack Asare
	Nana's Son Meshack Asare
	Magic Goat, The Meshack Asare
	Sosu's Call Meshack Asare
	Tawia Goes to Sea Meshack Asare