Hajara Lydia Daniel

Hajara Lydia Daniel is a Saltpond born author, poet and playwright. The former student of Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School, Tamale Secondary School (Ghana) and the University of York (United Kingdom) began writing at the age of 5. By the age of 12, she had written her first book, Endless Love. After two decades of working at EW FACT and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the married mother of two left the corporate world and followed her passion for writing. Hajara is the founder and Executive Director of the Creative Writing Academy in Accra.

She is also the CEO of HLD Consultants and Executive Secretary for the National Platform for Literacy, Reading and Numeracy (NAPLIRN) in Ghana. Kookua (performed at the Ghana National Theatre on 28/29 September 2017) and The Akans - Birth of Two Kingdoms (performed at The Center for National Culture, Accra in March 2017) were written and co-directed by Hajara. Her books, published under the pen-name, H L Daniel, include Passage of Love, Cocoa Kisses, Amazing Grace and Kofi: Growing Pains. Hajara is a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.