Meshack Asare

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Photo by Shevaun Williams

Meshack Asare is a gifted Ghanaian author-illustrator who has won international acclaim for a rare combination of literary and artistic talent as revealed in his storybooks. He is the winner of the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature.

Weaving Gold

January 2016
Meshack Asare
The traditional Ghanian kente cloth that Meshack Asare wore to the 2015 Neustadt Festival ceremony. When Asare accepted the NSK Prize last October, he wore a traditional Ghanaian kente cloth for…
Growing Culture as Essential Knowledge: The 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize Lecture

January 2016
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Meshack Asare speaking at the 2015 Neustadt Festival banquet. Speaking before a packed audience at the University of Oklahoma last October, Asare reflected on culture as our “mandate to…
Culture to Free Our Children: Looking Back at My Work over Five Decades

January 2016
Meshack Asare
Meshack Asare. Photo by Shevaun Williams I feel greatly honored in that such a prestigious award, bestowed by a truly distinguished American institution, is an immense recognition of my role in Afric…