Mohammed Naseehu Ali, a native of Ghana, is a writer and musician. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Bennington College, Ali has published fiction and essays inThe New Yorker, the New York TimesMississippi Review, Bomb, Gathering of the Tribes, and Essence. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

HarperCollins has published his collection of stories The Prophet of Zongo Street

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