Philip Boakye Dua Oyinka, popularly known as Nana Asaase
is a
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
, literary coach and writer. He is also a member of the National Folklore Board. He was born on 12 December and comes from
Koforidua
Koforidua, also popularly known as K-dua or Kofcity, is a city and the capital of Eastern Region in southern Ghana. Koforidua was founded in 1875 by migrants from Ashanti. It is also called New Juaben. The city has a settlement city proper pop ...
in the
Eastern Region of Ghana. Nana Asaase, a name which means "King of the Earth" in the
Akan Akan may refer to:
People and languages
*Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
*Akan language, a language spoken by the Akan people
*Kwa languages, a language group which includes Akan
* Central Tano languages, a language group ...
dialect
Twi
Twi () is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. Twi has about 17-18 million speakers in total, includ ...
, was conferred on him by his grandmother.
He blends English with Twi.
Education
For his secondary education, Nana Asaase attended
St. Augustine's College,
Cape Coast. In 2010, he was awarded a bachelor's degree in Arts and history from the
University of Ghana
The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities.
The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...
, Legon.
Career
He was a public relations assistant at Saatchi & Saatchi from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, he became the public relations executive at Global Media Alliance for a year and is currently a literary couch at Asaase Inscription.
As of December 2022, he was serving his second term as the Secretary of the
Ghana National Folklore Board's governing board. He holds the Digital Reading ambassadorial role for the Ghana Library App.
List of his poetry works
*Life of Colours-Sancho Ignites
*Communion of Lies
*Sternly to the Day; Gently to the Earth
*Intoxicated Mirrors-London on fire
*Ephiphania
*Mental Pictures V
Mental Pictures V
Awards and recognition
He was acknowledged for his contributions in putting Ghanaian poetry in the limelight. This was at the first edition of the Ghana Writers Awards.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ghanaian poets
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