# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kojo-laing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:50:13.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kojo-laing"
name: "Kojo Laing"
slug: "kojo-laing"
description: "B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. His first two novels in particular – Search Sweet Country (1986) and Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words."
tagline: "Ghanaian author, novelist and poet (1946-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Kojo_Laing.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-07-01"
deathDate: "2017-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.806372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%91%E4%B9%94%C2%B7%E8%8E%B1%E6%81%A9"
    title: "科乔·莱恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كوچو لاينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo_Laing"
    title: "Kojo Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo_Laing"
    title: "Kojo Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo_Laing"
    title: "Kojo Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%BB%D5%B8_%D4%BC%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B6%D5%A3"
    title: "Կոջո Լեյնգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojo_Laing"
    title: "Kojo Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Лейнг, Коджо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1778896"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump