franka-maria-andoh

Born in 1968 in Accra, Ghana, the country that is the setting for most of her stories. She holds a degree in Communications from Croydon Business School and owns a coffee shop and a public relations company in Accra.

In 2009, Franka was nominated by Ama Ata Aidoo, considered one of the mothers of African letters, to attend one of the most prestigious writing workshops on the continent, the Caine African Writer's workshop, which was being held in Ghana. Guided by Aminatta Forna, author of Where Wild Flowers Grow, The Memory of Love, among other books translated and available in Spanish, she wrote her first narrative "Mansa". This story is part of the anthology of the Caine Prize for African Literature, Work in Progress and Other Stories.

Franka is a passionate and strong advocate for changing the African narrative. Her first published stories were written because the author could not find any literature that paid tribute to her daughter. He wondered why he was waiting for others to write stories that had characters who looked like Ghanaian children and who enjoyed those dishes that were typical of their country. Thus were born the two children's stories: "Dokono the Donkey" and "Koku the Cockerel".

In 2014, she was awarded a grant from the Danish-Ghana Culture Fund for the publication of her collection of short stories I Have Time and Other Short Stories.