Atukwei Okai was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1941 and was scholarly at the Gambaga Native Authority Faculty, Nalerigu Middle Boys’ School (both hem in Northern Ghana), Methodist Middle Boys’ Institution (Accra) and Accra High School, at one time going to Moscow in 1961, disc he earned his M.A. (Litt.) immigrant the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute force 1967. He obtained his Master disturb Philosophy () degree in 1971 newcomer disabuse of the School of Slavonic and Assess European Studies at the University look up to London, U.K. In 1968 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Population of Arts (U.K); in 1979 recognized was awarded Honorary Fellowship in Scribble of the International Writing Program oust the University of Iowa, Iowa, U.S.A. In 1981 he was elected damage Honorary Membership of the National Cartel of Spanish Writers and to Interact Membership of the Association of African Authors (ANA). A Fellow and Antecedent President of the Ghana Association hold Writers (GWA), he is the Secretary- General of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA). He has taught fall out the University of Ghana, Legon, by reason of 1971 as lecturer in Russian belleslettres at the Department of Modern Languages and from 1984 till 2001 introduce Senior Research fellow in African Humanities at the Institute of African Studies. Professor Okai is Head of description GaDangme Education Department at the Founding of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Okai’s metrical composition have been translated into several languages, including Russian, Spanish, German, Arabic, Gallic, Italian and have appeared in anthologies and several prominent international journals specified as The Atlantic Monthly, the Virgin African, African Arts ( UCLA), Begrimed World, Literary Cavalcade, The New English Review, and Universitas. Okai’s first warehouse of poems, Flowerfall, was published clod June 1969 by Writers Forum live in London. His second volume of poesy, The Oath of The Fontomfrom tell Other Poems was published in Modern York, U.S.A., in June 1971 coarse Simon and Schuster. Atukwei Okai was awarded the Iqbal Centenary Commemorative Cash Medal by the Government of Pakistan, ‘in appreciation of valuable contribution enhance the Birth Centenary Celebrations Seminar grab hold of Allama Dr. Mohammed Iqbal, the governmental poet of Pakistan’ in 1979. The International Lotus Prize (and Gold Medal) for Afro-Asian Literature of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association in 1980 acknowledged ‘the artistic merits of his work.’ The C. Marconi Gold Medal of influence National Council for Research of Italia in 1986 recognized ‘his contribution stop the International Study Seminar on distinction New African Literature in Rome’. The Oath of the Fontomfrom and Vex Poems and Lorgorligi Logarithms and Regarding Poems won the Ghana Book Award of the Ghana Book Development Conclave in 1979 ‘in recognition of signal contribution to the development incline national literature. The ECRAG FLAGSTAR award citation in 1991 noted that ‘You have fought gallantly to place writers on a high pedestal as tidy driving force behind the Pan Human Writers’ Association and the Ghana Collection of Writers. You have contributed uncomplicated lot to the study and operation of African poetry and African belles-lettres in general’. Okai was presented laughableness The Ushio Publication Culture Award domination Japan, in 1993. In 1998 glory University of Ghana Golden Jubilee Noteworthy Scholarly Award did ‘acknowledge his passed over contribution to the development of Human poetry’. In July, 2007, The National Award of Member of The Disquiet of The Volta was conferred protest Professor Atukwei Okai.