21. The Reading Culture in Ghana with Martin Egblewogbe

I speak with Martin Egblewogbe about the types of readers in Ghana, the reading culture in Ghana, publishing, the Writers Project of Ghana, and writing the novel "The Waiting."About my guest: Martin is a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana. He is the author of the collection of short stories, The Waiting published by Lubin & Kleyner in 2020 and Mr Happy and The Hammer of God and Other Stories published by Ayebia in 2012. Professor Martin was the commissioning editor for the anthology Resilience published in 2021 and also co-edited the anthology of short stories, The Sea Has Drowned the Fish in 2018 as well as the anthologies of poetry Look where you have gone to Sit published in 2010 and According to Sources published in 2015. He is a co-founder and a director of the Writers Project of Ghana, and was the director of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra. He also hosts the radio show, Writers Project on Citi FM.