Asiedu Yirenkyi

Asiedu Yirenkyi (born 1946, Akropong) 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, joining the Drama Studio Players. He later studied drama at the University of Ghana and Yale University, and lectured in Ghana and Nigeria.^[1] Like writer Ama Ata Aidoo, also involved in the Ghana Drama Studio, Yirenkyi later served as a minister in the Provisional National Defence Council of Jerry Rawlings:^[2] 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

References

^ Killam, Douglas; Rowe, Ruth, eds. (2000), "Yirenkyi, Asiedu", The companion to African literatures, Oxford: J. Currey, pp. 310
^ Etherton, Michael (1995), "Ghana", in Banham, Martin, The Cambridge guide to theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 425–6

External links

Works by or about Asiedu Yirenkyi in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Yirenki, Asiedu
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Short description	Ghanian playwrighgt
Date of birth	1946
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