Kofi Anyidoho(Prof.), B.A., (Ghana), M.A. (Indiana), PhD

COURSES TAUGHT

• ENGL 450 Advanced Creative Writing

PUBLICATIONS
Books

1. The Place We Call Home & Other Poems: Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishers, 2011 [with companion Double CD].

2. Reclaiming the Human Sciences and the Humanities through African Perspectives. Volumes I (944pages) I & II (738pages). Co-Edited with Helen Lauer. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012.

3. Africa, the Sad Tropical Continent-Selected Poems. Korean Translations by Lee Seok Ho. Kookhak Publishers, Seoul, 2012.

4. The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems (1964-2013) by Kofi Awoonor. Edited and with an Introduction by Kofi Anyidoho. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Chapters in Books

1. “Atumpan: Kamau Brathwaite and the Gift of Ancestral Memory”. In Annie Paul (ed.), Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite. University of the West Indies Press, 2007, pp. 39-53.

2. “National Identity and the Language of Metaphor”. Les Constructions de l’autre dans les relations interafricaines, eds. Fatima Harrak et Khalid Chegraoui. Rabat, Morocco: Institut des nEtudes Africaines, Universite Mohammed V – Souissi, 2008: 71-86.

3. “Ghanaian Kente: Cloth and Song”. The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art. Ed. Lynn Gumpert. Grey Art Gallery: New York University 2008, pp. 33-47.

4. “The Legend of Queen Abraham Pokou: an Introduction”. Véronique Tadjo, Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice, Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. 2009, pp. v-xxiii.

5. “Experiences in the Training of Teachers in the History and Culture of Africa”. In New Frontiers in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture, eds. Tunde Babawale, Akin Alao, and Tony Onwumah. Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), 2010, pp 215-234.

6. “Foreword”, jointly with Mawuli Adjei. Jacob Spieth, The Ewe People: A Study of the Ewe People of German Togo, translated by Marcellinus Edorh, Emmanuel Tsaku, Raphael Avornyo & Mary Esther Kropp-Dakubu. Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra, 2011. Originally published in German & Ewe as Die Ewe-Stamme, Berlin 1906, by Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen).

7. “Beyond Dream and Tragedy: Nkrumah’s Heritage in African Literary Imagination”. In Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Colloquium Proceedings, eds. Akilagpa Sawyer and Takyiwaa Manuh. Accra: Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Planning Committee, 2012, pp.105-112.

8. “Foreword: Beyond the Printed Word”. African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, eds. Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene and Martin A. Klein. Cambridge University Press. 2013, pp. xvii – xxii.

9. “Orality and Performance: a Source of Pan-African Social Self”. In African Literatures and Beyond. A Festchrift for James Gibbs. Eds. Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey Davis. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V. 2013.

10. “In Retrospect: An Introduction”. In The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems by Kofi Awoonor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [Spring 2014].

Journal Articles:

1. “A Chance to Make History, Either Way”. The New Legon Observer, Vol. 2 No 5.12.

2. “Beyond his Place, Beyond His Time: Nkrumah’s Heritage in the New Millennium.” Chemchemi. Issue No. 3 (April 2010): 7-14. Mwalimu Nyerere Professorial Chair in Pan-African Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

3. “Nkrumah’s Heritage in the New Millennium.” CODESRIA Bulletin, No.s 1&2, 2010: 3-10.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

via post:      Department of English
                    University of Ghana
                    P. O. Box LG 129 
                    Legon