Sylvia Arthur

Biography

Sylvia Arthur, born in London, England, to Ghanaian parents, is a writer, journalist, communications consultant, literary curator and cultural activist. In 2017, she founded a private library in Accra, Ghana, the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD), for the study, preservation, and dissemination of African and Diaspora literature, with a mission "to celebrate and champion Africa's rarely acknowledged contribution to the global literary canon." LOATAD also runs a programme of writers' residences, Arthur herself having had residences with Hedgebrook in Washington State and the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, among other places. Arthur explores in her work issues of identity, diaspora and place, with publications and outlets for which she has written including The Guardian, Lithub, the BBC, and the British Journalism Review.

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