SELORMEY, FRANCIS

born April 15, 1927, Dzelukofe, Gold Coast [now in Ghana] Ghanaian writer and teacher whose semiautobiographical novel, The Narrow Path: An African Childhood (1966), was hailed as a distinguished addition to African literature. Selormey began his career as a physical-education teacher and administrator. His first published work was The Witch, a story published in Okyeame in 1965. The Narrow Path, written with freshness, simplicity, and disarming honesty, tells of the vain search for love of a young man raised by an overly strict father. It has been praised for its humour and pathos and its study of the parentchild relationship. Selormey later was a feature and script writer for the Ghana Film Corporation.