Ivor Agyeman-Duah

Ivor Agyeman-Duah (born 1966) is a Ghanaian academic, economist, writer, editor and film director. He has worked in Ghana's diplomatic service and has served as an advisor on development policy.

Biography

Ivor Agyeman-Duah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1966, and was named after his father's good friend, the British historian Ivor Wilks.[1]

Agyeman-Duah holds an MA degree from the University of Wales and an MSc in Economic Development from The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.[2] He is the founder and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Renewal, a public organization in Ghana.[3]

From 2009 to 2014 he was special advisor to the President John Agyekum Kufuor on international development cooperation, and in this capacity worked with the World Food Programme in Kenya and Ethiopia and the Geneva-based international peacebuilding organization Interpeace.[4] He has done work for the World Bank and World Bank Institute in Washington, DC. Agyeman-Duah was formerly head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Embassy in Washington, DC, and later Culture and Communication Advisor at the Ghana High Commission in London, and has been a consulting fellow of the African Center for Economic Transformation.[3] He has also held fellowships at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and been a Hilary and Trinity resident scholar at Exeter College, Oxford.

Also active in literary and cultural fields, Agyeman-Duah has edited many publications, serves as Development Policy Advisor for the Lagos-based Lumina Foundation,[5] which established the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and he was the 2014–15 Chair of the Literature Jury of the Millennium Excellence Foundation.[3]

He wrote, co-directed and produced two television documentary films – Yaa Asantewaa: The Exile of King Prempeh and the Heroism of an African Queen, premiered in Ghana in 2001,[6][7][8] and The Return of a King to Seychelles, which was shown at Chatham House in 2015[9] – and Agyeman-Duah was also historical consultant to Margaret Busby's 2001 theatrical production about Yaa Asantewaa (Yaa Asantewaa – Warrior Queen).[10][11]

Publications
  • Between Faith & History, Vols 1, 2 & 3: A Biography of J. A. Kufuor, 2007.
  • Pilgrims of the Night: Developmental Challenges and Opportunities in Africa, 2011.

As editor
  • The Asante Monarchy in Exile: Sojourn of King Prempeh I and Nana Yaa Asantewaa in Seychelles, 2000.
  • (With Peggy Appiah) Bu Me Be: Proverbs of the Akans, Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah, 2006.
  • Economic History of Ghana, An: Reflections on a Half-century of Challenges and Progress, Foreword by Wole Soyinka, 2008.
  • (With Ogochukwu Promise) Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, 2014.
  • All The Good Things Around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories, 2016.
  • (With Lucy Newlyn) May Their Souls Never Shrink: Wole Soyinka and the Oxford Professorship of Poetry, 2016.
  • The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories, Forewords by Wole Soyinka and Valerie Amos, 2017.

References
  1. Adomako Ampofo, Akosua (7 January 2015). "In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks (1928-2014)". Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  2. "Ivor Agyeman-Duah". Bookshop. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. "Centre of African Studies Research Associates". SOAS University of London. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. "Ivor Agyeman-Duah". Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa (HACSA). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. "Management". Lagos: The Lumina Foundation. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  6. Dadson, Pajohn (18 May 2001). "Ghana: Yaa Asantewaa Has Landed". AllAfrica. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  7. Boyd, Herb (5 April 2018). "Queen-mother Yaa Asantewaa led the fight against British colonialism". New York Amsterdam News.
  8. "Yaa Asantewaa goes to Chatham House, London". Smithsonian. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. Benjamin, Jon (28 September 2015). "Speech: The Return of a King to Seychelles". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  10. McCaskie, T. C. (2007). "The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa". Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 77 (2): 151–179.
  11. "Writer for June - Ivor Agyeman-Duah". Writers Project of Ghana. June 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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