found: Modern Ghana website, Saka Acquaye passes on, 8 March 2007, viewed June 7, 2017(Saka Acquaye, painter, sculptor, textile designer, teacher, arts administrator, dramatist and musician; born in Accra November 2, 1923; died February 27 [2007]; educated at the Achimota Teacher Training College 1943-1946, then Achimota Art School 1947-1949 where he studied music, art and craft; studied art sculpture and industrial design at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1953-1956, and advertising and public relations at Charles Morris Price School, 1957-1959; majored in opera and theatre arts at University of California in Los Angeles, 1964-1966; recognized as the doyen of sculpture, modeling in clay, then fibre glass; as a dramatist his most notable plays were Hintin Hintin, Obadzen, Makola Scholarship, Sasabonsam, and The Lost Fisherman; he directed the Wulomei, the Ga Folk instrumental; founded the Black Beats Band in 1952 to left the group when he went to study in the USA; in the US he formed the African Ensemble in 1954; taught art at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast, for 2 years in the 1950s; chief promoter of the arts at the Ghana Institute of Art and Culture, which later became the Arts Council of Ghana)
