[1] His debut collection, The Man Who Died (1984), won the 1985 British Airways Commonwealth Prize for Poetry.
[2] The dramatized performance of his Music for a Dream Dance "remains one of the most memorable events in the recent history of the poetic scene in Ghana".
[3] Kobena Eyi Acquah was born in Winneba in Ghana's Central Region.
He has worked as a lawyer and investment counselor at the same time as pursuing his writing career.
On 29 July 1988, the group performed a public premiere, billed as an 'outdooring', of Music for a Dream Dance at the DuBois Centre.