Kofi Anyidoho
Encyclopedia
Kofi Anyidoho is a Ghana
ian poet and academic who comes from a family tradition of Ewe
poets and oral artists. He was educated in Ghana and the U.S., gaining his Ph.D. at the University of Texas. He is currently Professor of Literature at the University of Ghana
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He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Valco Fund Literary Award, the Langston Hughes Prize, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award, the Fania Kruger Fellowship for Poetry of Social Vision, Poet of the Year (Ghana), and the Ghana Book Award.
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
ian poet and academic who comes from a family tradition of Ewe
Ewe people
The Ewe are a people located in the southeast corner of Ghana, east of the Volta River, in an area now described as the Volta Region, in southern Togo and western Benin...
poets and oral artists. He was educated in Ghana and the U.S., gaining his Ph.D. at the University of Texas. He is currently Professor of Literature 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...
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He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Valco Fund Literary Award, the Langston Hughes Prize, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award, the Fania Kruger Fellowship for Poetry of Social Vision, Poet of the Year (Ghana), and the Ghana Book Award.
Poetry
- Elegy for the Revolution (1978)
- A Harvest of Our Dreams (1985) - Heinemann (paperback 1998), ISBN 043590261X
- Earthchild (1985) Woeli Publishing, ISBN 9964970722
- Ancestral Logic and Caribbean Blues (1992) Africa World Press, ISBN 0865432651
Writing
Anyidoho's academic writing includes:- The Word Behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile, Northwestern University Press (1997), ISBN 0810113937
- Kofi Anyidoho and James Gibbs (ed.), Fontomfrom. Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Film, Editions Rodopi B.V. (2000), ISBN 9042012730
Sources
- Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge (2002), ISBN 0415230195 - p. 24
- Dominic Head. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press (2006), ISBN 0521831792 - p. 35
- Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal "Poetry Africa Festival"http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/pa2001bios05.html#Kofi%20Anyidoho%20(Ghana)