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Efo Kodjo Mawugbe is dead

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Genre : Cultural personnality death announcements
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater
Release/publication date : 2011
Published on : 15/09/2011
http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201109/72889.php

Efo was renowned for his writing prowess in drama. He was winner of the BBC's International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 with his play, The Prison Graduates. His play was selected out of 12,000 entries across the world.

Efo Kodjo was born on 21 April 1954 in Kumasi.

He has to his credit 19 plays. These include: "A Calabash of Blood" - Radio Drama- GBC in 1978, "Aluta Continua" - drama - produced for radio, stage and T.V. distributed in Africa by URTNA (1979) and in 1980, "The Unbending Branch" - Radio Drama (GBC).

Between 2001-2002, Efo Kodjo was a part-time Assistant Lecturer (Playwriting) at the Theatre Arts Department of the University of Ghana, where he supervised final year playwriting students.

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