Awoonor, Kofi
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Kofi Awoonor was born in 1935 in Wheta, Ghana. A critically acclaimed poet and a stateman, Awoonor is the author of the 1971 poetry collection titled Night of my Blood. Other collections include: Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), Until the Morning After (1987), The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems 1964-2013 (2014), and a novel titled This Earth, My Brother (1971). Awoonor attended the University of Ghana, Legon. He was awarded prizes such as Gurrey prize (1959), Commonwealth poetry award (1989), Ghana Association of Writers distinguished authors award (1991) and ECRAG national award for poetry in 1992 and 1994 respectively. He was killed in 2013 during the attack on West Mall Gate, Kenya.
- Section
- Index of Poets
- Poet Name
- Awoonor, Kofi
- Given name
- Kofi
- Last Name
- Awoonor
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 13 March 1935
- Place of Birth (city)
- Ghana, Wheta
- Region
- West Africa
- Place of Birth (country)
- West Africa
- Date of Death
- 21 September 2013
- Selected Works
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Poems:
The Land Endures
On the Gallows Once
Etchings from My Mind
Speeches, Lectures, Interviews, Performances / Critical Articles, Media:
Egudu, Romanus N. Four Modern West African Poets. Nok, 1977.
Goodwin, K. L. Understanding African poetry: a study of ten poets. Heinemann, 1982.
University of Washington. “Kofi Awoonor, Poetry and Comments.” Internet Archive, 1979. https://archive.org/details/uwlibraries_oclc14261670.
University of Washington. “Kofi Awoonor, Songs Of The Village.” Internet Archive, July 9, 2014. https://archive.org/details/uwlibraries_oclc9378354.
University of Washington. “Kofi Awoonor - African Studies Association Keynote Speech. 1992, Seattle, WA.” SoundCloud, 2015. https://soundcloud.com/uwlibraries/kofi-awoonor-asa-keynote-1992. - Poetry Collections
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Rediscovery and Other Poems. Mbari Publications, 1964.
Night of My Blood. Doubleday, 1971.
Ride Me, Memory. Greenfield Review Press, 1973.
The House by the Sea. Greenfield Review Press, 1978.
Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85. Greenfield Review Press, 1987.
Latin American and Caribbean Notebook. Africa World Press, 1992.
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems. University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
