Kofi Dorvlo

The ASCL is saddened by the news of the passing of Kofi Dorvlo in February 2022.

Kofi Dorvlo worked in the General and Liberal Studies Department of the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Language Centre, University of Ghana. He gained his undergraduate degree in English and Linguistics at the Univerity of Ghana, and he did his graduate work at the same university, where he was appointed Research Fellow at the Language Centre. He was awarded a PhD from Leiden University in 2008. His doctoral research, which was funded by the Endangered Languages Programme of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), focused on the documentation of the language and culture of the Logba people in the Ghana-Togo Mountains. His recent article, 'Restitution and Redistribution of Ewe Heritage' was publisehd in a volume edited by Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin 2017, Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa.

He was a LeidenASA visiting fellow at Leiden University in 2019. His fellowship continued his research on the stories and rituals of the Ewes of southeastern Ghana whose tradition has it that they settled in Ketu near the present Benin-Nigeria border before coming to Notsie in Central Togo and finally, because of the cruel treatment under King Agorkorli, decided to escape to their present settlement in Ghana.