Tag: Kofi Awoonor

Wole Soyinka: Muslims, take back Islam

by Wole Soyinka These butchers continue to evoke the mandate of Islam, thus, we exhort our moslem brother and sister colleagues:  Take back Islam. Take back that Islam which, even…

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Okey Ndibe: Kofi Awoonor – A macabre dance

by Okey Ndibe For the future belongs to humanists like Kofi Awoonor, not depraved men who kill and maim in the name of God. Awoonor’s vision and intelligence and creative…

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Opinion: Black Africa – This earth, my people

by Gimba Kikanda Islam is increasingly being used by many groups of perverts to hurt the conscience of humanity. And the ongoing sparks of terrorism around us are justifications of…

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How I escaped Kenya terrorist attack – Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that the late Ghanaian diplomat and poet, Kofi Awoonor and himself could have been together at the Storymoja/Hay Literature Festival held in Nairobi, Kenya. He…

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Poetry: In memoriam – For Kofi Awoonor who died in the Kenya mall attack

by Abdul 'Obemata' Mahmud ....still, I think of about this moment, I clear the sea of mourners with my gaze, thinking it appropriate to curse those merchants of death, I think about you, still.…

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Sad news: Widespread shock in Ghana as poet, Kofi Awoonor dies in Kenya terrorist attack

Ghanaian poet and former UN envoy Kofi Awoonor, 78, was among 59 people killed in the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, according to reports from Nairobi. The Kenyan president Uhuru…

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