Interview with Kobina Eyi Acquah (KEA) by Naah Yemeh (NY)

Abstract

Kobena Eyi Acquah was born in Winneba in Ghana's Central Region. He studied at the University of Ghana, Legon, and studied law at the Ghana Law School.

He has served on the Ghana Book Development Council and the Ghana Copyright Board, and in 1993 was president of the Ghana Association of Writers.

His publications include: The man who died: Poems: 1974-1979, which won the British Airways Commonwealth Prize for poetry in 1985; Music for a Dream Dance (1989); Rivers Must Flow and No Time for a Masterpiece (1995) and A Wreath of Tears.

He emphasized the importance of the public poetic performance of poetry with a drama group known as The Living Echoes, he directed several dramatic performances of his poetry, including selections from The Man Who Died. Another example is that on 27 January 1988, the group performed Birth and Rebirth at the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture.