Biography of kofi anyidoho

Ghanaian poet and academic (born 1947)

Kofi Anyidoho (born 25 July 1947) is a Ghanaianpoet and academic who comes from a family tradition of Ewe poets and oral artists.^[1][2] He is currently Professor of Literature at the University of Ghana.^[3][4]

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.^[5]

Biography

Born in Wheta, in Ghana's Volta Region,^[6] Anyidoho was educated in Ghana and the USA, and holds a B.A.

Honours degree in English & Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M.A. in Folklore from Indiana University Bloomington and gained his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin.^[3]

Having trained as a teacher at Accra Training Col