Rita Akoto Coker
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Rita Akoto Coker (born 1953) is a Ghanaian-American writer, primarily of romance novels. She has published five books, including the 2001 novel ''Serwah, the Saga of an African Princess''. Her father,
Baffour Osei Akoto Bafuor Osei Akoto (1904-2002) was a Ghanaian agriculturalist, traditional ruler and politician. He was the founder and leader of the National Liberation Movement. He was a linguist of the Asantehene and resided in the Manhyia Palace 9 in Kumasi. ...
, was the founder of Ghana's National Liberation Movement.


Biography

Rita Akoto was born in 1953 in
Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
. Her parents were Helena Osei Akoto and Baffour Osei Akoto, a member of the pre-independence National Liberation Movement and a chief linguist at the
Manhyia Palace The Manhyia Palace ( Akan: ''Oman hyia'', English: Gathering of the people) is the seat of the Asantehene, as well as his official residence. It is located in Manhyia, Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The first palace is now ...
. Her brother,
Owusu Afriyie Akoto Owusu Afriyie Akoto (born 19 October 1949) is a Ghanaian agricultural economist and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was a Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency from 2009 to 2017. He was a cabinet minister i ...
, is a Ghanaian politician with the
New Patriotic Party The New Patriotic Party (NPP; ) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratisation of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghanaian ...
. Coker migrated to the United States where she lives in Chicago and works as a marketing consultant. She began writing romance novels, publishing her first book, ''Serwah: The Saga of an African Princess'', in 2001. She has since released four more books, including ''The Lost Princess'' and its sequel, ''Fate's Promise''. Her books have been primarily released by Ghanaian publishers including Afram Publications and Kwadwoan Publishing Company.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coker, Rita Akoto 1953 births Living people Ghanaian women writers Ghanaian women novelists American women novelists 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century African-American writers American romantic fiction writers Ghanaian romantic fiction writers African-American novelists 20th-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American women