Author: Frances Mensah Williams

Frances Mensah Williams writes across fiction, careers, and business while drawing on experience in Ghana and the United Kingdom. Imperfect Arrangements follows three close friends and their partners in Accra, using intertwined relationships to examine ambition, family expectations, work, and marriage. Williams describes the novel as an effort to portray both friendship and cultural pressure from the perspectives of women and men. Her fiction also includes From Pasta to Pigfoot, its sequel, and the Marula Heights novellas. Outside literature, she has worked in human resources, executive coaching, and skills development, and founded the diaspora careers platform ReConnect Africa. She received a CBE in 2020 for services to Africans in the UK and Africa.