On this episode of the MnR show we hear an interesting selection of Highlife tunes and an equally interesting story from our guest Dr. Martin Egblewogbe; writer, lecturer, founder of the Writers Project of Ghana and Director of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra. Through 12 songs, we hear how he came to writing his experience moving from a self published writer to running a small press under WPG and what the literary Festival hopes to achieve in its 6th year in 2022.

Special Guest: Dr. Martin Egblewogbe is a senior lecturer in Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana. He is the author of the collection of short stories, The Waiting (lubin & kleyner, 2020) and Mr Happy and The Hammer of God and other Stories (Ayebia, 2012). His writing has appeared in a number of collections, such as The Gonjon Pin (2014 Caine Prize anthology), PEN America’s Passages Africa (2015), All The Good Things Around Us (2016), Litro #162: Literary Highlife (2017), Between The Generations (2020), Shimmering at Sunset (2021), Voices That Sing Behind The Veil (2022) . Martin was the commissioning editor for the anthology Resilience: A Collection (2021), and also co-edited the anthology of short stories, The Sea Has Drowned the Fish (2018) as well as the anthologies of poetry Look where you have gone to sit (Woeli, 2010) and According to Sources (Woeli, 2015). He is a co-founder and a director of the Writers Project of Ghana, and was director of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra in the 2017 - 2022 editions. He also hosts the radio show, Writers Project on Citi FM.

Elizabeth Johnson is a writer and researcher of Ghanaian-Nigerian heritage. Her short stories, poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in a few online and print publications. She works with The Writers Project of Ghana as a project and media coordinator and manager of their annual literary festival, Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra. She also works with The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora( LOATAD) and produced the maiden edition of their festival, Womanfest Ghana.