Biography
Kobena Eyi Acquah was born in 1952 in Winneba, Ghana. A lawyer and poet, Acquah is the author of the 1984 poetry collection The Man Who Died: Poems 1974–1979, which won the 1985 British Airways Commonwealth Prize for Poetry. Other collections include Music for a Dream Dance (1989), Rivers Must Flow, and No Time For A Masterpiece (1995). Acquah attended the University of Ghana, Legon and Ghana Law School. He was a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the 1993 President of the Ghana Association of Writers.
Poetry Collections
The Man Who Died: Poems 1974 -1979, Music for a Dream Dance (Asempa,1989); Rivers Must Flow and No Time For A Masterpiece (Woeli,1995).
Sources
"Kobena Eyi Acquah." Writers Project of Ghana, 11 October 2017, writersprojectghana.com/eyi_acquah/. Accessed 2 October 2024.
Nazareth, Peter. "World Literature in Review: Uganda." World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 2, Spring 1996, p. 459. EBSCOhost.
Willemse, Hein. "An Interview with Kobena Eyi Acquah." English in Africa, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 1987, p. 75. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/docview/1311835281?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals.
