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P E Adotey Addo was announced as a promising poet and a storyteller in "Voices of Ghana," a 1957 symposium of Ghanaian writing in Ghana, West Africa.
Rev. Addo has traveled and experienced much since his poem about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was first published. Most of his career has been as a college teacher of both religion and of science. He is a poet, a painter, a storyteller, writer, a folklorist, a theologian, and a biologist. His works have been published by The Daily Graphic, in Accra, Ghana, West Africa; The Ghanaian Times, Accra, Ghana, West Africa; The Scope, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; The Palmetto Leader, Columbia, South Carolina; The Charlotte Poetry Review, Charlotte, North Carolina; The North Carolina Christian Advocate, Greensboro, North Carolina, The Greensboro Daily News and Record, just to mention a few. He has written one anthology of poems, Talking Drums, 1999, two collections of folktales, Ghana Folktales, 1968, and How the Spider Became Bald, 1993. Many of his works have appeared in several countries and languages. Rev. Addo is a retired United Methodist Minister of the Western North Carolina Conference. He served as a pastor of several churches in Western North Carolina. He was also the College Chaplain at Bennett College in Greensboro NC, where he taught for more than twenty years. He was a member of the North Carolina Governor's Big Brothers/Big Sisters Advisory Council. He was recognized for his volunteer service as a chaplain for the Boy Scout Council, Camp Vanessa, North Carolina; for supporting ecumenical endeavors at Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama; and the city of Mobile, Alabama, proclaimed a "Rev. Peter Addo Day." He lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina. Rev. Addo lives in Greensboro with his wife, Dr. Linda Addo, and the couple have two grown-up children. He now devotes most of his time visiting schools, churches and colleges, giving readings and talks. Contact Information
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The
greatest influence on "Osofo," as he puts it, were the encouraging words
of the founder of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, after the
publication of his poem on the first anniversary of the Independence of
Ghana in 1958.