Overview
Region
West Africa
Ghana
Era
Post-colonial
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
Awoonor was one of the foremost voices in African poetry; he was killed in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi