Introduction

Written children's literature in Ghana is fairly recent. Before the arrival of the missionaries and the colonialists who introduced formal education and literacy into Ghana, parents and grandparents drew upon the rich stock of traditional Ghanaian folklore to entertain and educate both young and old. When creative writing began in Ghana, the writers did not pay much attention to writing stories for children; they rather concentrated on adult literature. casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911) generally thought to be the first indigenous creative effort has now been superseded by Marita: Or The Folly of Love which was serialized in the Western Echo (a newspaper) between 1886 ...

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