Kofi Awoonor, a well-loved Ghanaian poet, was killed and his son wounded at the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday. Awoonor, 78, was also a statesman — he served as Ghana's ...

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Kofi Awoonor was attending a literary festival in Nairobi when he was killed in a siege at a Kenyan shopping centre. Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene looks back at the life of one of Ghana's most ...

The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., lamented the loss of 78-year-old Kofi Awoonor, a noted literary figure, who was among 39 people killed during a militant attack on a shopping mall in ...

Nigerian Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and other writers on Friday paid tribute to renowned Ghanaian poet and statesman Kofi Awoonor, among the 67 killed in last weekend’s Kenyan mall attack.

Newsday reports that Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor taught creating writing and African literature at Stony Brook for six years in the 1970s. Awoonor, a former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United ...

Confucius warned young men against the sin of emotional excess, old men against the sin of emotional penury. My sin was being shamefully unmoved by the tragedy at a shopping mall in Kenya, until I ...

In 2008, when the founder of Rainbow Book Club, Mrs Koko Kalango was scouting for master class facilitators at the maiden edition of Garden City Literary Festival, now Port Harcourt Literary Festival, ...

In effect the national poet of Ghana, Awoonor (1935-2013) belongs to the first generation of African writers who grew up along with their countries; his verse from the 1960s integrates modernist ...

This poem is about the poet portraying his emotion in a depressing and melancholy manner as a result of the calamities that befalls him. This poem is about the poet portraying his emotion in a ...