West Africa
Ghana
Post-colonial
English
Poetry
Poetry collection drawing deeply on the Ewe oral tradition, especially the funeral dirge (halo). Awoonor fuses indigenous African poetics with modernist influences to mourn colonial disruption.
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Awoonor was one of the foremost voices in African poetry; he was killed in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi
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editorial-summarynot primary textPoetry collection drawing deeply on the Ewe oral tradition, especially the funeral dirge (halo). Awoonor fuses indigenous African poetics with modernist influences to mourn colonial disruption. Awoonor was one of the foremost voices in African poetry; he was killed in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi
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