Accra Noir

Danquah is best-known for her memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression (Norton), which received glowing praise from the Washington Post , etc. Danquah is a highly sought-after speaker and has delivered keynote speeches and addresses at dozens of conferences and events, including at: the Carter Center, Atlanta GA; Barnard College, New York, NY; University of Ghana, Legon; University of California, Los Angeles; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, etc. Danquah has taught at Otis College of Arts and Sciences, Antioch College, the NYU in Ghana program, and at the University of Ghana. Additionally, she taught creative writing for the city of Manhattan Beach, California as a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, and poetry to grades K-12 in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a California Poet-in-the-Schools. Danquah has been published in many newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Africa Report, etc. Danquah splits her time between Southern California and Ghana. Accra Noir includes brand-new stories by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh, and Anna Bossman.