Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor
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Writer, Poet
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Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935 - 21 September 2013) 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.

Professor Awoonor was among those who were killed in the September 2013 attack at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964)
Night of My Blood (1971) - poems that explore Awoonor's roots, and the impact of foreign rule in Africa.
The House By the Sea (1978)
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems (to be published in 2014)

Books

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