The Pen at Risk is more than a memoir. It is a piece of authentic, ungarnished history by a YANKAH  CLASSICS writer and public intellectual who is too modest to accept the title of a historian, but who  witnessed and chronicled the most intriguing epochs of Ghana’s national life. Laced with the innate  Fante humour, this book is a piece of deep but entertaining non-fiction that is told with the demystified  simplicity of one of Ghana’s greatest academics and writers. Kwesi Yankah is a gift to humanity, and this  memoir is a greater gift to an unfortunate generation like mine that did not live in the era of the incisive  writings of the great Kwatriot.

Manasseh Azure Awuni  Editor-in-Chief, The Fourth Estate

When a citizen who has spent his whole life scrutinising society, turns the spotlight on himself, the risks  include this epic engagement that spares no one, him included. In this bare-it-all memoir, the Yankah  enigma is fully bared, warts and all. As it turns out, Yankah has had more than his fair share of privileged  roles, ultimately impacting the national narrative.

The richness of ethnography here, is as riveting as his urban-savvy accounts of the intrigues of university  and national politics. While we watch him weave his wizardry of words, we are also awed by the totality  of his humanity. The Pen at Risk is a hilarious package of eruditions.

It is about the exalted gossips of our Motherland. The narratives are so sweet they hurt. If this isn’t the  best book you have read in years, call me illiterate.

Kofi Akpabli  Scholar, author, journalist

– Paperback Edition