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Lade Wosornu is a Ghanaian professor in surgery, poet, essayist, philanthropist and wellness teacher, as well as a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science. The ‘Master Brewer’ as he is commonly known, in reference to one of his most studied poems is widely published, with an array of beautiful literary works; effervescently written with passionate life messages. He has over 90 publications in scientific journals, and authored eight books three of which are poetry collections.

Born in the 1930s, Lade Wosornu grew up in the Volta region of Ghana with his parents and siblings, rising to become the prominent figure on the African literature and medical fronts, that he is today. As a young boy he used to follow his grandmother to the farm. On one of such trips to the farm the artist in the young Lade was stirred when his grandmother remarked about the ‘sun cracking it’s oil’.

Young Lade would go on to pursue knowledge away from home, at St. Augustine’ Boys School in Cape Coast, and subsequently at the prestigious Legon Presbyterian Boy’s School in Accra, where he honed his writing.

Lade Wosornu would later travel to Ireland, to study medicine and eventually become a surgeon. He would go on to practice in Europe, Southern Africa, the Gulf and his homeland – Ghana.

“Lade Worsonu has been a prominent figure on the Ghanaian literary and academic landscape, being an essayist and columnist on a range of health issues in Ghanaian papers. He has worked extensively in health-related fields, with the WHO and across a number of African, Saudi Arabian and London universities.” (https://afrilingual.wordpress.com/tag/lade-wosornu/) He nonetheless continues to immerse himself in the arts, grooming young writers having published a number of poetry volumes while still at his publishing best in many scientific journals. His journey has been divinely driven with humanitarian values as he states himself that “his passion in life is to seek a closer walk with God. He strives for compassion such that he flings roses wherever he berths, bringing heaven-on-earth for others. No longer scared of terminal darkness, he sees his father of final light. Dancing to inner tunes of joy, barefoot on the embers of fortune, he prays to be of service to everyone, expect naught from any man, and, be God-sufficient by his sunset.” In July 2019, the former Accra Prize for Literature was renamed the Lade Wosornu Prize for Literature in his honour. The Lade Wosornu Prize for Literature celebrates the “works of young and established writers that have the power to reshape the world for good”. It boasts a list of winners, who are renowned personalities in Ghanaian society including; top Ghanaian broadcast journalist, Gender Activist, and host of StandPoint, Oheneyire Gifty Anti, host of Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Koku Avle, Sports Editor at Peace FM, Dan Kweku Yeboah and poet Celestine Nudanu.