Kofi Awoonor
| Kofi Awoonor | |||||
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Gold Coast ni Wheta (en)  , Silimin gɔli March 13, 1935 | |||||
| O ya Tiŋgbaŋ | Ghana | ||||
| Kpibu shee | Nairobi, Silimin gɔli September 21, 2013 | ||||
| Ŋ-ŋɔ kum | homicide (en) | ||||
| Education | |||||
| Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ | University College London (mul) Achimota School Stony Brook University (en) | ||||
| Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu | Silmiinsili Ewe (en) | ||||
| Tuma | |||||
| Tuma | daankpɛɣulana, diplomat (en) , sasabira, professor (en) , novelist (en) , politician (en) ni fukumsi kpambali | ||||
| Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma | Stony Brook University (en) | ||||
| Magnum opus | This Earth, My Brother (en) | ||||
Kofi Awoonor ( nyɛla ŋun dɔɣim yuli nyɛ George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; ka bɛ dɔɣi o silimiingoli March bɛɣu pinaata dali, yuuni 1935 ka o kani silimiingoli September bɛɣu pishi ni yini dali, yuuni 2013) ŋun nyɛ ŋun daa nyɛ Ghana yɛltɔɣ'taɣimalisi tira, sasabiri n-ti pahi diplomat. O tuma nim nyɛla din jendi o Ewe balli mini bɛ kaya polo. O nyɛla ŋun daa pili sabbu ni yuli din nyɛ George Awoonor-Williams,[1] ka daa lan nyɛ ŋun tuma nim zuɣu yuli lan nyɛ Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. O nyɛla ŋun wuhi gbansabila litiricha shikuru yuli booni University of Ghana. Purufɛsa Awoonor nyɛla ŋun daa bahi bɛ ni daa ku shɛli silimiingoli September 2013 attack yaɣili yuli booni Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, n be Kenya tingban ni, o ni daa chaŋ Storymoja Hay Festival la ni.[2][3][4]
O pilli bɛhigu
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni Wheta,[5] n be Volta region din yuli daa na booni Gold Coast la, n be zuɣu Ghana la ni. Ŋuni n daa nyɛ o ba bihi pia puuni bikpem sani .[6] [7]
O shikuru chandi
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Career
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
Poetry
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]O kpibu
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]O tuma nima
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Poetry
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Rediscovery and Other Poems (Mbari Publications, yuuni 1964)[8]
- Night of My Blood (Doubleday, yuuni 1971) – poems that explore Awoonor's roots, and the impact of foreign rule in Africa[9][8]
- Ride Me, Memory ( yuuni 1973)[7]
- The House by the Sea (Greenfield Review Press, yuuni 1978)
- Until the Morning After: Selected Poems, yuuni 1963 halli ni yuuni 1985 (Greenfield Review Press, yuuni 1987)
- The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, yuuni 1964 ni halli ni yuuni 2013 (Amalion / University of Nebraska Press, yuuni 2014)[10]
Novels
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- This Earth, My Brother (Doubleday, yuuni 1971) – a cross between a novel and a poem[9][8]
- Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa (Africa World Press, yuuni 1992)
Non-fiction
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara (Anchor Press, yuuni 1975; ISBN 0-385-07053-5)
- The Ghana Revolution: Background Account from a Personal Perspective ( yuuni 1984)
- Ghana: A Political History from Pre-European to Modern Times (Sedco, yuuni 1990)
- Africa: The Marginalized Continent ( yuuni 1994)
- The African Predicament: Collected Essays (Sub-Saharan Publishers, yuuni 2006; ISBN 9789988550820)
As editor or translator
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Messages: Poems From Ghana ( yuuni 1971). Eds. Kofi Awoonor & G. Adali-Mortty.
- Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry ( yuuni 1974). Trans. Kofi Awoonor.
Poems
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- The Cathedral
- The Weaver Bird
- Across a New Dawn
- A Call
- On the Gallows Once
- Lament of the Silent Sister
- Had Death Not Had Me in Tears
- Songs of Sorrow
- First Circle
- A Death Foretold[11]
Karimbu nim yaha
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Robert Fraser, West African Poetry: A Critical History, Cambridge University Press ( yuuni 1986), ISBN 0-521-31223-X
- Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (eds), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Basic Civitas Books ( yuuni 1999), ISBN 0-465-00071-1 – p. 153.
- Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores and Judith E. Moores (eds), Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology, (Trinity University Press, yuuni 2006).
Kundivihira
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy & Virginia Coulon (eds), A New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 355.
- ↑ Prof. Awoonor dies in Al-Shabab attack in Kenyan Mall. citifmonline.com (22 September 2013).
- ↑ Alice Vincent (22 September 2013). "Nairobi shopping mall attacks: Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet, killed in Westgate Attack". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10326144/Nairobi-shopping-mall-attacks-Kofi-Awoonor-Ghanaian-poet-killed-in-Westgate-Attack.html.
- ↑ Somalia's al-Shabab claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya attack. BBC News (22 September 2013).
- ↑ "Kofi Awoonor: Remembering a Ghanaian poet" (en-GB). BBC News. 2013-09-23. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24213762.
- ↑ Jocelyn Edwards, "Ghana Mourns Kofi Awoonor Death", Huff Post Books, 25 September 2013.
- 1 2 Foundation, Poetry (2023-03-03). Kofi Awoonor (en).
- 1 2 3 (December 1978) "Biografski dodaci" (in sh). Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) XXXIV (12): 1424–1427.
- 1 2 Who Wrote What When?. London: Simon & Schuster. 1999. p. 41. ISBN 0-684-85822-3.
- ↑ Kofi Awoonor's new book The Promise of Hope: New and selected poems. Joy Online.
- ↑ Kofi Awoonor - Poet Kofi Awoonor Poems (en-us).
Kofi Awoonor
External links
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Report on the death of Kofi Awoonor, 22 September 2013.
- Paula Kahumbu of Princeton University and director of the Story Moja Hay Festival relates her time with Awoonor the Friday evening before his death
- Biographical details, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Interview, Sun newspaper (Nigeria), 18 June 2006.
- Poem: Songs of Sorrow by Kofi Awoonor
- Francis Kwarteng, "A Tribute to Prof. Kofi Awoonor", VibeGhana, 23 September 2013.
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