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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Ghanaian children's writers, Ghanaian dramatists and playwrights, Ghanaian non-fiction writers, Ghanaian novelists, Ghanaian poets, Ghanaian screenwriters, W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peggy Cripps, William Boyd, Raphael Armattoe, Emmanuel A. Kissi, Anton Wilhelm Amo, J. E. Casely Hayford, Efua Sutherland, Susanna Al-Hassan, Ayi Kwei Armah, Kofi Awoonor, Kwame Dawes, Taiye Selasi, Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo, Padmore Enyonam Agbemabiese, Joe de Graft, Nii Parkes, Frank Kobina Parkes, Ottobah Cugoano, P. A. K. Aboagye, Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Stephen Atalebe, John Mensah Sarbah, J. Benibengor Blay, Kofi Aidoo, Meshack Asare, Kwesi Brew, Kobina Sekyi, Leila Djansi, Kofi Anyidoho, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Asiedu Yirenkyi, Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh, Ato Sekyi-Otu, Bediako Asare, Abdul Salam Mumuni, Kwaw Ansah. Excerpt: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (; February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an intellectual leader in the United States as a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Biographer David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." Born in Massachusetts, Du Bois graduated from Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D in History, the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard. Later he became a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. As head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, he was founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. Du Bois rose to national attention in his opposit...