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    Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet, author and diplomat. His work combined...
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    Contemporary poet-diplomats include Abhay K, Indran Amirthanayagam, Kofi Awoonor, Philip McDonagh and Yiorgos Chouliaras. Abhay Kumar wrote, "There seems...
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  • Ghanaian novelist Kofi Awoonor published, later republished by Heinemann as part of the influential African Writers Series. Awoonor started writing the...
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  • framework. Writers published in the magazine include its first editor Kofi Awoonor, Efua Sutherland (later also editor), Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo...
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    Former Chief Justice of Ghana. Former Chief Justice of Kenya Professor Kofi Awoonor - Poet,author, academic and diplomat. Former Ghana’s permanent representative...
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  • poet Kofi Awoonor was an alumnus of Zion College. Other alumni of Zion College include renowned lawyer Sam Okudzeto, Akenten Appiah-Menkah, Hans Kofi Boni...
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  • branches of the family in Ghana. The Awoonor-Renner, Awoonor-Wilson, Awoonor-Gordon families are branches of the Awoonor-Williams family that originated from...
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    Mbugua Mwangi and his fiancée Rosemary Wahito, Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor and Canadian diplomat Annemarie Desloges. Kenyan interior minister Joseph...
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  • of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who died in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi on 21 September 2013. "Kofi Awoonor", NNDB. "Biografski dodaci"...
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  • Allotey, mathematical physicist Kofi Annan, diplomat and chancellor of the University of Ghana Ernest Aryeetey Kofi Awoonor, professor and diplomat Patrick...
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  • Achebe (Nigeria) Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana) Jared Angira (Kenya) Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana) Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) Fadhy Mtanga (Tanzania) Breyten Breytenbach (South...
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  • Christopher Okigbo, Bernard Fonlon, Frances Ademola, Cameron Duodu, Kofi Awoonor; from South Africa: Ezekiel Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, Lewis Nkosi, Dennis...
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    "Professor John Atukwei Okai An Appreciation Of A Pan-African Bard". Awoonor, Kofi; Anyidoho, Kofi; Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville (26 January 2014). The promise of...
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  • Adali-Mortty - Costa Andrade - Jared Angira - Peter Anyang' Nyong'o - Kofi Awoonor - Kwesi Brew - Dennis Brutus - Siraman Cissoko - J. P. Clark - José Craveirinha...
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    Kampala, Uganda. He met with literary figures including Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, Nigerian playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka, and American poet Langston...
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  • Literature for his body of work, nominated by Ghanaian poet and author Kofi Awoonor, edging out other nominees including; Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, and...
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  • (1937–1991, Somaliland/Somalia, nf/p), full name Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013, Gold Coast/Ghana, p/f/nf) Mohammed Awzal (1670–1749, Morocco...
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  • Maya Angelou Matthew Arnold Margaret Atwood W. H. Auden Margaret Avison Kofi Awoonor Imamu Amiri Baraka Anna Laetitia Barbauld James K. Baxter Aphra Behn...
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    Adibu Asiedu – active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2022–) Kofi Awoonor – Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions...
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  • Tom Umphlett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930) 2013 – Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1935) 2013 – Michel Brault,...
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  • Praise Song for the Land: Poems of Hope & Love & Care (2002). Foreword by Kofi Awoonor The Place We Call Home and Other Poems (2011) Anyidoho's academic writing...
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    conduct extramural writers' workshops. That is where he met Kofi Awoonor (then George Awoonor Williams), playwright Efua Sutherland, poet Frank Kobina Parkes...
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  • Bognini Charles Nokan Lenrie Peters Ellis Ayitey Komey Kwesi Brew Kofi Awoonor Atukwei Okai Kofi Anyidoho Ahmed Tidjani Cissé Khadambi Asalache Jonathan Kariara...
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  • 1967 A Woman in Her Prime 41 Djoleto, Amu 1968 The Strange Man. 42 Awoonor, Kofi and Adali-Mortty, G. 1970 Messages: Poems from Ghana. 43 Armah, Ayi...
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  • writer M. R. Anand, writer and pioneer of the English novel in India Kofi Awoonor (MA), Ghanaian poet, academic and politician Julian Baggini (PhD Philosophy...
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    of Volta # Citizen Settlement 1 Erica Nego Ho 2 Jerry Rawlings Keta 3 Kofi Awoonor Wheta 4 Peter Bossman Ho 5 Prof. A.C. Kuma Leklebi Ave Kludze Hohoe Fiifi...
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    Yehoshua  Israel Anton Shammas (Palestine) 1994 Kamau Brathwaite  Barbados Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) Svetlana Alexievich  Belarus Zoya Boguslavskaya (Russia) Norman...
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  • Messages: Poems from Ghana (AWS 42, 1970). The latter was edited by Kofi Awoonor and Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty. His first collection of poetry, The Dark...
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  • – Stanisław Moskal, Polish scientist and writer (died 2019) March 13 Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and writer (killed 2013) David Nobbs, English comedy writer...
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  • personalities over the years. These include Captain Kojo Tsikata, his cousin, Kofi Awoonor and President Jerry Rawlings in 1979. During the era of the National...
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