Efo Kodjo Mawugbe | |
Birth Date: | 21 April 1954 |
Birth Place: | Kumasi, Ghana |
Death Place: | Accra, Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Education: | Mawuli School |
Alma Mater: | University of Ghana |
Occupation: | Writer |
Notable Works: | Prison Graduates |
Efo Kodjo Mawugbe (21 April 1954 – 14 September 2011) was a Ghanaian award-winning playwright and director of the National Theatre of Ghana. He was also a judge of TV3's Ghana's Most Beautiful Television show.[1] [2] [3] Efo Kodjo Mawugbe as started a theatre company called Theater Kilimanjaro in the early 1990s.
Efo Kodjo Mawugbe was a student of Mawuli School where he got his General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary and Advanced Levels before proceeding to study Theatre Arts at the University of Ghana from 1975 to 1978. He later studied a certificate programme in Theatre Management and Audience Development at the British Council in Glasgow and London. In 1991, Mawugbe pursued a certificate course in Senior Management Development at the Ghana Institute of Public Management (GIMPA). He also studied at the Bauff Centre for Management, Calgary, Canada in 1995.
Efo Kodjo Mawugbe was awarded in the BBC World Service and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 for his play, Prison Graduates.[4] [5]