Martin Cameron Duodu was born on 24 May 1937 and is a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian novelist, journalist, editor and broadcaster.
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Cameron Duodu was born in Asiakwa in eastern Ghana and educated at Kyebi Government Senior School and the Rapid Results College, London, through which he took his O-Level and A-Level examinations by correspondence course.
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Cameron Duodu began writing while still at school, the first story he ever wrote being broadcast on the radio programme The Singing Net and subsequently included in Voices of Ghana, a 1958 anthology edited by Henry Swanzy that was "the first Ghanaian literary anthology of poems, stories, plays and essays".
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Cameron Duodu was a student teacher in 1954, and worked on a general magazine called New Nation in Ghana, before going on to become a radio journalist for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation from 1956 to 1960, becoming editor of radio news.
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In June 2010 Cameron Duodu was a participant in the symposium Empire and Me: Personal Recollections of Imperialism in Reality and Imagination, held at Cumberland Lodge, alongside other speakers who included Diran Adebayo, Jake Arnott, Margaret Busby, Meira Chand, Michelle de Kretser, Nuruddin Farah, Jack Mapanje, Susheila Nasta, Jacob Ross, Marina Warner, and others.
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Cameron Duodu's work was included in the anthology Messages: Poems from Ghana.
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Cameron Duodu has had stints with the magazines South and Index on Censorship, and has written regularly for outlets such as The Independent and The Guardian.
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Cameron Duodu is the author of the blog "Under the Neem Tree" in New African magazine, and has published regular columns in The Mail and Guardian and City Press, as well as writing a weekly column for the Ghanaian Times for many years.
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Cameron Duodu has appeared frequently as a contributor on BBC World TV and BBC World Service radio news programmes discussing African politics, economy and culture.
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Cameron Duodu contributed to the 2014 volume Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah and Ogochukwu Promise.
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Akwasi Cameron Duodu, is financial planner currently living In London, whilst his brother Korieh Cameron Duodu is a writer.
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In 2005 at the Ghana Professional Achievers Awards, which honour outstanding Ghanaian professionals and business people living in the UK, Cameron Duodu won the "Communication and Media" category for his column in New African.