Neville Dawes (16 June 1926 – 13 May 1984) was a novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage.
Neville Augustus Dawes was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jamaican parents Augustus Dawes (a Baptist missionary and teacher) and his wife Laura,[1] and was raised in rural Jamaica,[2] where the family returned when he was three years old.
Returning to West Africa in 1956, he took up a teaching post at Kumasi Institute of Technology in Ghana.
[4] In 1962, he and his Ghanaian wife Sophia, an artist and social worker, had a son Kwame.
[4] He published two novels (The Last Enchantment and Interim) and a poetry collection, as well as short stories and essays, some of which were broadcast on the BBC programme Caribbean Voices.