Adjei
Agyei-Baah is a founding partner of Poetry Foundation Ghana, a teacher, and
lecturer for Serwaa Nyarko Girls Senior High School, Kumasi and Institute of
Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana respectively. He is also
the co-editor of Poetry Ink Journal, a yearly poetry anthology in Ghana. As
part of his duties, he also serves as a supporting administrator for www.poetryfoundationghana.org. He is a widely
anthologized both home and abroad and among his outstanding works includes the
praise songs “Ashanti” and “Ghost
on Guard” written for the King of Ashanti and the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana respectively. At the international
front, his poem, “For the Mountains” was selected by the BBC to
represent Ghana in a Poetry Postcard Project for the 2014 Commonwealth Games held
in Glasgow, Scotland.
Adjei
is a devotee of the Japanese poetry form haiku and has written and published in
e-zines and international journals such
as Frogpong, World
Haiku Review, The Heron’s Nest, Shamrock etc. and is one of the top winners of 3rd
Japan–Russia Haiku Contest 2014, organized by Akita International
University, Japan, making him the ultimate recipient
of the Akita
Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Award. Adjei is currently working on ‘’KROHINKO’’-an anthology of poems from Ghana
Poetry Prize Contest, 2013 and looks forward in coming out with his two poetry
collections this year. Some of his poetry artefacts can be found in Manhyia
Museum and Centre of National Culture, Kumasi. Adjei
is married to Pansiwaa and blessed with two boys.
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