Kofi Awoonor

Night of My Blood

Collection addressing African identity, colonialism, and cultural recovery

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Kofi Awoonor
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.

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