Asiedu Yirenkyi is a Ghanaian playwright, the author of Kivuli and Other Plays.

In the early 1960s Asiedu Yirenkyi became involved in the Ghana Drama Studio founded by Efua Sutherland

Efua Sutherland

Efua Theodora Sutherland was a Ghanaian playwright, children's author, and dramatist. Her best-known works include Foriwa , Edufa , and The Marriage of Anansewa .-Life:...

, joining the Drama Studio Players. He later studied drama at the University of Ghana

University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian universities and tertiary institutions. It is one of the best universities in Africa and by far the most prestigious in West Africa...

 and Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, and lectured in Ghana and Nigeria

Nigeria

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. Like writer Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo

Professor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author and playwright.-Life:She grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. She was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964...

, also involved in the Ghana Drama Studio, Yirenkyi later served as a minister in the Provisional National Defence Council

Provisional National Defence Council

The Provisional National Defence Council was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. This was on December 31, 1981. It remained in power until January 7,...

 of Jerry Rawlings

Jerry Rawlings

Jerry John Rawlings is a former leader of the Republic of Ghana and now the African Union envoy to Somalia. Rawlings ruled Ghana as a military dictator in 1979 and from 1981 to 1992 and then as the first elected president of the Fourth Republic from 1993 to 2001...

: he was Secretary for Culture and Tourism until 1984, when he was replaced by the playwright Ben Abdallah. Yirenkyi later became head of Ghana's National Folklore Board.

Works

• Kivuli and other plays, 1980
• Dasebre : a play on African rituals and games, 1990
• Two plays : Dasebre and The red ants, 2003

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