Nana Demoah

Nana Awere Damoah works as a publisher, bookseller and technical services consultant. He is the co-founder of booknook.store – an online bookshop focused on distributing printed African books across the world, and co-founder of DAkpabli & Associates, a publishing house that operates out of Ghana.

In 1997, Nana won first prize in the Step Magazine National Writing Competition. In 2017 his story ‘October Rush’ won first prize in the Ama Ata Aidoo Story Category of the GAW Awards. He is the author of eight books including: Sebiticals Chapter X, Nsempiisms, Sebitically Speaking, I Speak of Ghana, Tales from Different Tails, Through the Gates of Thought and Excursions in my Mind.

Nana holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Operations from the University of Liverpool.

He is married with three children, and is based in Tema, Ghana.