Peggy Appiah (1921–2006)
Auteur de Tales of an Ashanti Father
Œuvres de Peggy Appiah
Why the hyena does not care for fish, and other tales from the Ashanti gold weights (1977) 5 exemplaires
A dirge too soon 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Cripps, Enid Margaret (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1921-05-21
- Date de décès
- 2006-02-11
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Goodfellows, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Kumasi, Ghana
- Lieux de résidence
- Goodfellows, Gloucestershire, England, UK (birth)
Mbrom, Ghana - Études
- Maltman’s Green School, Buckinghamshire, England
- Professions
- children's book author
novelist - Relations
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony (son)
Cripps, Richard Stafford (father)
Parmoor, Lord (grandfather - Charles Alfred Cripps)
Webb, Beatrice (great aunt) - Prix et distinctions
- Order of the British Empire
- Courte biographie
- Enid Margaret "Peggy" Cripps was the daughter of a British chancellor of the exchequer who defied the conventions of her time with her marriage and career. She studied art in Florence and then attended secretarial school at home. Peggy Cripps met the Ghanian law student and political activist Joseph Emmanuel Appiah in England in 1951 and announced their marriage two years later. The union of an aristocratic white woman and a Black political figure caused an international sensation at the time. She became the author of several children’s books, including The Pineapple Child and Other Tales from the Ashanti, Why There are So Many Roads, and Afua and the Mouse. Peggy Appiah was also the author of two adult novels as well as a volume of poetry and a collection of thousands of Ashanti proverbs. Widowed in 1990, she spent her remaining years in Ghana.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 92
- Popularité
- #202,476
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
- Langues
- 1
These stories are fun, well written, and the illustrations fit nicely. And while each story has a moral (eg don't be prideful, help the community, etc) the stories do not preach.
The introduction has a line that says "I hope that one day, these Ashanti Stories will be shared by children in homes and schools of many lands." and I agree.… (plus d'informations)