Ishmael A. Junourgh is currently a graduate student of the Institute of African Studies, IAS, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, journalism option, from the African University College of Communications in Accra. He believes he is a reincarnation of his griot and griottess ancestors, Kisabla Gyedu Juru Buburwu and Buburwu Diatah.

Junourgh took his ancestral calling as griot, a step further from oral tradition to writing. Most of his books were sociocultural, sociohistorical and anthropological inclined.

He is famous for his fond statement: “Before my great grandfather passed on, he gave me two things, and that is a needle kibasibi and a thread jesei and these needle and thread are symbolic of the indigenous storytelling techniques and so I use this indigenous storytelling techniques as my needle and thread to knit my stories”.

His debut novel, “Not Forsaken: Diaries of an African Child” came out in 2019. And became an instant international seller. In 2022, his second novel, “Ancestors Prologue: Diaries of an African Child” followed and became an international seller, too. In 2024, he released “Ladimeh: Abandoned African Slave” and it became an instant international seller.