Ayebia
United Kingdom
- 7 Syringa Walk, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 1FR
- 7 Syringa Walk, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 1FR, United Kingdom
- ayebia.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- ayebia@ayebia.co.uk
- +44 1295 709228
- Contact: Nana Ayebia Clarke MBE, Managing Director
Becky Nana Ayebia Clarke MBE is a Ghanaian-born award-winning Publisher. She was Submissions Editor at the African and Caribbean Writers Series at Heinemann Educational Books at Oxford where she worked for 12 years in the International Department that published and promoted award-winning writers to readers internationally. Writers published include Soyinka, Gordimer, Aidoo, Achebe, Ngugi, et al. She set up Ayebia with David her British husband in 2003 to look to new directions in African publishing after Heinemann stopped active publishing in the AWS in 2002.
Ayebia’s mission is to open new spaces by offering fresh insights to this perspective. Ayebia books are used in faculties teaching African Studies as well as books for the ordinary reader about Africa and its Diasporas. Clarke was awarded an Honorary MBE in 2011 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for ‘services to the UK publishing industry.
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