Africanus Aveh

Africanus Aveh

Africanus Aveh, also known as Togbe Yao Eladzagla I is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana. He has also been adjunct faculty at Webster University Ghana campus since January 2017. He was educated at the University of Ghana and the University of Tronheim, Norway (now Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

He is a Writer, Director, Producer and Critic for both Theatre and Film. and has presented academic papers at several international conferences and workshops, served on the jury at international film festivals, and has several publications and creative productions to his credit. He has been a Visiting Scholar to universities in Africa, Europe and North America.

Recently Africanus Aveh was the director of Mohammed ben-Abdallah’s The Trial of Mallam Ilya for the Ghana Theatre Festival 2017 at the National Theatre, Accra.