Victor Kofi Agawu (born 28 September 1956) is a Ghanaian musicologist and music theorist.
[2] Victor Kofi Agawu was born on 28 September 1956 in Hohoe, the Volta Region of Ghana.
[5] In 2006, he was appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Agawu has written more than 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and given over 100 keynote addresses and invited lectures.
His next monograph was African Rhythm, A Northern Ewe Perspective (1995), which deals with the relationship and interference of the Ewe language and their music in everyday lives revealing a greater horizon for African rhythmic expression.