Kofi Awoonor

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kofi Awoonor is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. Awoonor was born in Ghana when it was still called the Gold Coast. He went to university in there, and went on to teach African literature at the University of Ghana....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kofi Awoonor is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. Awoonor was born in Ghana when it was still called the Gold Coast. He went to university in there, and went on to teach African literature at the University of Ghana. While at the University of Ghana he wrote his first poetry book; Rediscovery. Like the rest of his work, Rediscovery was based on African oral poetry. In Ghana he managed the Ghana Film Corporation and founded the Ghana Play House. He then studied literature at the University of London, and while in England wrote several radio plays for the BBC. He spent the early 1970s in the United States, studying and teaching at universities. While in the USA he wrote This Earth, My Brother, and My Blood. Awoonor returned to Ghana in 1975 as head of the English department at the University of Cape Coast. Within months he was arrested for helping a soldier accused of tying to overthrow the military government and was imprisoned without trial. After ten months he was found guilty and released.