Kofi Awoonor

**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**,  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.

## O pilli bɛhigu
George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni  Wheta, 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 .  

## O shikuru chandi

## Career

## Poetry

## O kpibu

## O tuma nima

### Poetry
**Rediscovery and Other Poems* (Mbari Publications, yuuni 1964)
**Night of My Blood* (Doubleday,  yuuni 1971) – poems that explore Awoonor's roots, and the impact of foreign rule in Africa
**Ride Me, Memory* ( yuuni 1973)
**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)

### Novels
**[[This Earth, My Brother]]* (Doubleday, yuuni 1971) – a cross between a novel and a poem
**Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa* (Africa World Press, yuuni 1992)

### Non-fiction
* *The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara* (Anchor Press, yuuni 1975; )
* *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; )

### As editor or translator

* *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
* 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

## Karimbu nim yaha
* Robert Fraser, *West African Poetry: A Critical History*, Cambridge University Press ( yuuni 1986), 
* Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (eds), *Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience*, Basic Civitas Books ( yuuni 1999),  – p.&nbsp;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

Kofi Awoonor

## External links
* 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.