Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor was born in 1935 in Wheta, in the Volta Region. A pupil at Achimota and a graduate of the University of Ghana in 1960, he was a researcher at the Institute of African Studies, then headed the Ghana Film Corporation. He later studied in London and in the United States. Returning to Ghana in 1975, he was imprisoned for nearly a year without trial. Ambassador to Brazil and then to Cuba, he represented his country at the United Nations from 1990 to 1994. He died in Nairobi in 2013.

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• PoetryRediscovery and Other PoemsKofi Awoonor · 1964Literature