Honours degree in English & Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M.A.
Currently the Professor of Literature in the English Department, he has also been Director of the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Program, acting Director of the School of Performing Arts and Head of the English Department.
[3][7] He was installed as the first occupant of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies at the University of Ghana on 18 March 2010.
[1][8] Kofi Anyidoho's poetry is respected as distinct in the way he weaves modernity into tradition and inspires hope by extending the three-chord rope of Ewe oral tradition.
[9] He not only writes with the background of Ewe oral tradition experiences but also enacts the very performance and oration of his poems in griotic style.