Waterz Yidana s Biography & Interesting facts.
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Waterz Yidana is a respected Ghanaian writer. He became known in Ghana when he won the prestigious 40Under40 Awards in Authorship and Creative Writings in 2019, awarded by Xodus Communications. He has been nominated for several awards in Ghana and he won some of them. His first play The Mango Seed won the Efo Kodjo Mawugbe s Prize in Drama in 2019, awarded by the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW).
His second play Madman and the Drunkards which has been adopted by the University of Ghana for postgraduate studies also won the Efo Kodjo Mawugbe s Prize in Drama in 2017, awarded by the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW). The book is in the libraries of Ivy League universities abroad such as: Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Princeton and many others. The Ghana Education Service (GES) also approved and recommended it for Senior High Schools in Ghana.