AMU, EPHRAIM

AMU, EPHRAIM. College professor/Composer (13 September 1899 in Peki-Avetile, Trans-Volta Region, Ghana). His father was a drummer, who ceased playing when he and his wife became Christians. Amu received his education in schools at Peki-Avetile and Blengo; at the Basel Mission Seminary in Abetifi (1916-20); and at the Royal College of Music in London, England (Associate, 1940). His teaching career included tenures at the Bremen Mission in Peki-Blengo; at the Presbyterian Training College in Akropong;...