Kofi Awoonor
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Death | 11 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 13,1935 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Wheta |
| Ghana | |
| Date of died | September 21,2013 |
| Died | Nairobi |
| Kenya | |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Job | Professor |
| Poet | |
| Author | |
| Diplomat | |
| Novelist | |
| Education | University of Ghana |
| University of London | |
| Achimota School | |
| University College London | |
| Previous position | Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations (1990–1994) |
| Edited works | Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry |
| Messages: poems from Ghana | |
| Comes the voyager at last | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1358841 |
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
Comes the voyager at last
Ride me, memory
Latin American and Caribbean notebook
The African predicament
Until the morning after
The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara
Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry
Messages: poems from Ghana
Ghana
Fire in the Valley: Ewe Folktales
This Earth, My Brother
The house by the sea
Comes the voyager at last
Ride me, memory
Latin American and Caribbean notebook
The African predicament
Until the morning after
The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara
Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry
Messages: poems from Ghana
Ghana
Fire in the Valley: Ewe Folktales
This Earth, My Brother
The house by the sea
Kofi Awoonor Life story
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams, and was also published as Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor.
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