John Benibengor Blay (born 1915) was a Ghanaian journalist, writer, publisher and politician, who has been called "the father of popular writing in Ghana".
[1] His work encompasses fiction, poetry and drama published in chapbooks that have been compared with Onitsha Market Literature.
[2] Blay was born in Half Assini, Western Ghana, and educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
[3] He began writing poetry in 1937, publishing stories from the early 1940s onwards.
He later served as Minister for Art and Culture (1965–66)[6] under Kwame Nkrumah,[3] about whom he published a biography in 1973.