Origin is a great burden. Someone else might say, to be Ghanaian and a writer is the greatest burden. Now, we cannot speak much about the greater evil. What we do know is, along the years, many young Ghanaian writers have come and gone. Some of us ferried by planes, others by the cycle of stagnation that monkeys our country. Many of our forebears carry only the smoke of the identity—a thing churning, asking "who remembers you, writer?" The new age Ghanaian writer walks this long and lonely road. We reach behind us for more that is unique to our Ghanaianness, for our masters, our direction, our influence. The aim of this issue was to seek and publish fresh works by Ghanaian writers we believe belong in this "washing away." From the runner-up of the 2023 Adinkra Poetry Prize, Beah Batakou, to the once Daily Graphic Columnist, Kofi Akpabli, these are writers that have contributed to the face of Ghanaian Literature. During solicitation, there was no intentionality of theme in our selections. If you meet one, consider it the pulley, cranking.

—The Curators,

NENTA LITERARY JOURNAL