[4] The Constituent Congress of PAWA was held at the Kwame Nkrumah Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana, from 7 to 11 November 1989 under the theme: "African Unity; A Liberation of the Mind".
[7][8] In 1992, the Secretariat of PAWA, located in Accra's Roman Ridge neighbourhood,[9] was granted full diplomatic status by the government of Ghana.
", with a keynote address by Henri Lopès and presentations by James Currey, Margaret Busby and others in honour of Achebe.
[11] In 2017, the keynote address at a colloquium marking the 24th International African Writers' Day was given by President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo.
[12][13] PAWA has engaged in activities that have included conferences, readings, lectures, performances, visits, writing competitions and training, as well as honouring African writers.