Kofi Awoonor
Ghanaian poet and novelist who blended Ewe oral traditions with modernist forms to create some of the most lyrical poetry in African literature. He was killed in the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi.
Works
- RediscoveryPoetry exploring recovery and spiritual renewal after trauma
- Night of My BloodCollection addressing African identity, colonialism, and cultural recovery
- This Earth My BrotherNovel examining intellectual alienation and social fragmentation
- The House by the SeaPoetry of exile and introspection from the Ghanaian poet's later years
- Latin American and Caribbean NotebookTravel notebooks documenting explorations of Latin American and Caribbean cultures
- Ride Me Memory
- Until the Morning After