Gheysika Agambila

Gheysika Agambila is the author of the novels Journey, Emigrant and the children's books Solma and Nature Stories. He is also the author of three plays: The Mad Man of Bolga, Neighbours and Oh God, Give Me Another Life. He is also the author of The Shrinking Bowl, Bolga by Bus, and others.

Dr Gheysika Adombire Agambila was educated in Navrongo and Achimota Secondary School. He then continued his education in the USA at the Brandeis University (B.A.), University of Rochester, (M.B.A.) and New York University (Ph.D.). After working for many years in the USA, he returned to Ghana.

Dr Agambila has been a Deputy Minister of State in the Ghanaian government serving in the Finance and Economic Planning, Harbours and Railways, and Science and Environment Ministries. He was a Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School and Senior Lecturer of Public Finance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), and worked in financial consultancy services in Seirra Leone and for the National Development Planning Commsion of Ghana. He was a member of Ghana’s Constitutional Review Implementation Committee. He has also been a Treasurer and Vice President of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW).