Biography
Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang was born in 1952 in Kwabeng, Ghana. His two poetry collections are Cape Coast Castle (1996) and Wise Eyes: The Anomabo Poems, which was the Winner of the 2018 Peter Tillou-Venture Smith Book Prize. In Cape Coast Castle, the poet explores one of three slave castles on the coast of Ghana, chattel slavery, and the trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1975, he received his B.A. Hons., Dip.Ed. in Education from University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He also went to York University, Canada for his undergraduate and doctorate studies. Opoku-Agyemang is a Professor of Literature at University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
Poetry Collections
Cape Coast Castle (Afram Publ. Ltd, Ghana, 1996); Seoul Eyes (Asiatic Research Center, Korea University, South Korea, 1997); Wise Eyes: The Anomabo Poems (Documenting Venture Smith Project, Torrington, CT., 2018)
Sources
Dunne, Susan. “Ghanaian Poet to Receive Inaugural Tillou-Venture Smith Book Prize.” Chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2018, https://www.chicagotribune.com/hc-fea-venture-smith-book-prize-1028-story.html. Accessed 14 March 2022. Young, Rebekah. “Ghanaian Poet Kwadwo Opuko-Agyemang Brings Reflections on Slave Trade to GVSU.” Grand Valley Lanthorn, https://lanthorn.com/58359/pageone/ghanaian_poet_kwadwo_opukoagyemang_brings_reflections_on_slave_trade_to_gvsu/. Accessed 14 March 2022. “Visit of Dr. Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang .” Martin-Luther-Universitt Halle-Wittenberg, https://www.scm.uni-halle.de/_/reporting_list/aktivitaeten/aktivitaeten_2005/2017584_2017596/. Accessed 14 March 2022.
