Abraham Kobena Adzenyah is a Fante Master Drummer, percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and educator from Agona Swedru, Ghana. After serving as a music, dance, and drama instructor at the University of Ghana (1964–1969), Adzenyah spent over forty years as an Adjunct Professor of West African Music, Culture and Dance at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut (1969–2016). He has recorded and performed with artists such as Steve Reich, Anthony Braxton, Steve Gadd, Jayne Cortez, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble, with whom he performed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
