Kwadzo Ebli Senanu was born on 27 July 1933 at Agbozume in the Volta Region of Ghana.
He won the English Travelling Exhibition in 1954 and was awarded the Gurrey Prize for original composition in 1955.
He became a Schofield Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom from September 1971 to October 1972.
[6][7] In 1978, Senanu and Theo Vincent (later to be vice chancellor of University of Port Harcourt) published an anthology of poems titled A Selection of African Poetry.
[9] Senanu visited and became a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, beginning in October 1985.
He was a consultant to the Ghanaian government on preparing a draft Technical and Vocational Education Policy from 2000 to 2001.