Prof. Atukwei Okai was born John Atukwei John Okai (15 March [1] – 13 July ) [2] was a Ghanaian poet, cultural activist and academic. [3] He was Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers' Association, and a president of the Ghana Association of Writers. His early work was published under the name John Okai.
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Prof. Atukwei Okai was born John Atukwei Okai in Accra, Ghana, on 15th March and had his elementary education in Northern Ghana where his father worked as a school headmaster in Gambaga. 
Prof. Atukwei Okai was born Biography. Atukwei Okai was born in in Accra, Ghana. His first collection of poems, Flowerfall, was published in June His other collections include Oath of the Fontonfrom and Other Poems (), Lorgorligi: Logarithms and Other Poems (), Freedom Symphony: Selected and New Love Poems () and Mandela the Spear and Other Poems.
Atukwei Okai lived his formative Atukwei Okai is a Ghanaian writer, cultural activist and academic. He is Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers' Association, and former president of the Ghana Association of Writers. His early work was published under the name John Okai.
Prof Atukwei Okai was African poet, born in Accra, Ghana, educated there and at the Gorki Institute in Moscow, and the University of London where he studied Russian literature. He is very much a performance poet, and his poems are rooted in the oral tradition, virtually inseparable from traditional African music and dance.
Born John David Atukwei Former President John Dramani Mahama has eulogized the late Professor Atukwei Okai, describing him as a genius and a unique oral poet. Prof. Okai passed away on Friday after a short illness at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
Prof Atukwei Okai was Atukwei Okai was born in Accra, Ghana, in and was educated at the Gambaga Native Authority School, Nalerigu Middle Boys’ School (both in Northern Ghana), Methodist Middle Boys’ School (Accra) and Accra High School, before going to Moscow in , where he earned his M.A. (Litt.) from the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in
Biography of the Author Three Continents, ; "Patterns of Oral Poetic Trends in West and South African Poetry: Atukwei Okai and Mazisi Kunene" by Ohaeto Ezenwa, in Literary Griot (Wayne, New Jersey), 8(1), spring The use of musical rhythms in poetry is nothing unusual, but few contemporary writers make so great a use of the musical heritage of their culture.