Kobena Eyi Acquah

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.

Birth Date

1952-01-01

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

Ghana

University of Ghana, Ghana School of Law

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

https://writersprojectghana.com/eyi_acquah/ https://www.proquest.com/openview/174a6583a610935a29f54930b648d414/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobena_Eyi_Acquah Nazareth, Peter. “World Literature in Review: Uganda.” World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 2, Spring 1996, p. 459. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.unl.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9606253588&site=ehost-live.