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Accès direct
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Awoonor, Kofi
About Kofi Awoonor
Biography (Encyclopædia Brittanica)
Obituary (Ghana Business News)
Anyidoho, Kofi. “Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect.” Politics and Social Justice: African Literature Today, Emenyonu (ed.), 2014
Priebe, Richard. “Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend: Kofi Awoonor.” Politics and Social Justice: African Literature Today, Emenyonu (ed.), 2014
Reviews
Ajayi, Dami. “The Promise of Hope: A Review.” Wawabookreview.com, 25 Mar. 2016
Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. “The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013.” African & Asian Studies, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2015
Interviews
Willemse, Hein. “Kofi Awoonor in Conversation.” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 41, no. 2, 2004
Munro, Ian H. and Wayne Kamin. “Kofi Awoonor: Interview.” Kunapipi, vol. 1, no. 2, 1979 (PDF)
Assensoh, A. B. “Interview: Dr. Kofi Awoonor.” Afriscope, vol. 8, no. 10, 1978
Goldblatt, John. “Kofi Awoonor: An Interview.” Transition, vol. 8, no. 4, 1972
Criticism
Adika, Prince Kwame. “Post-Colonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering in the Novels of Kofi Awoonor.” Politics and Social Justice: African Literature Today, Emenyonu (ed.), 2014
Adjei, Mawuli. “Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry.” Politics and Social Justice: African Literature Today, Emenyonu (ed.), 2014
Lindfors, Bernth, and Geoffrey V. Davis (eds.). African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium, 2013
Ryan, Connor. “Regimes of Waste: Aesthetics, Politics, and Waste from Kofi Awoonor and Ayi Kwei Armah to Chimamanda Adichie and Zeze Gamboa.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 44, no. 4, 2013
Adjei, Mawuli. “Trans-Atlantic Memories: The Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Kofi Awoonor.” Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History, Opoku-Agyemang et al. (eds.), 2008
Secovnie, Kelly O. “Ama Ata Aidoo and Kofi Awoonor: Pan-Africanism Reconstructed.” Obsidian, vol. 8, no. 2, 2007
McKoy, Sheila Smith. “This Unity of Spilt Blood': Tracing Remnant Consciousness in Kofi Awoonor's Comes the Voyager at Last.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 33, no. 2, 2002
Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Jr. “Kofi Awoonor: 'Tribal' Neo-Oralist.” The Nassau Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 2001
Coussy, Denise. “Kofi Awoonor, 'une version poétique du monde'.” Notre Librairie, vol. 141, 2000
Ayivor, Kwame. “Individualism Versus Traditionalism in Four African Novels: Noni Jabavu, Es'kia Mphahlele, Ferdinand Oyono and Kofi Awoonor.” Pretexts, vol. 8, no. 1, 1999
Ker, David I. The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition, 1998
Maduakor, Obi. “Kofi Awoonor as Critic.” Critical Theory and African Literature Today, Currey (ed.), 1994
Works
Novels
Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa (1992)
This Earth, My Brother: An Allegorical Tale of Africa (1971)
Poetry Collections
As editor with Kofi Anyidoho: The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems (2014)
Latin American and Caribbean Notebook (1992)
Until the Morning After: Selected Poems 1963-85 (1987)
As editor with G. Adali-Mortty : Messages: Poems from Ghana (1979)
The House by the Sea (1978)
As editor: Guardians of the Sacred Word : Ewe Poetry (1974)
Night of my Blood (1971)
Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
The African Predicament: Collected Essays (2006)
Africa, the Marginalized Continent (1994)
Ghana: A Political History from Pre-European to Modern Times (1990)
A Study of the Influences of Oral Literature on the Contemporary Literature of Africa (1982)
Come Back, Ghana : A Brief Political Analysis of Ghana's Current Problems and Suggestions on how They can be Solved (1976?)
The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara (1975)
As editor with Cosmo Pieterse et al.: Short African Plays (1972)
Audio/Audiovisual Material
Kwame Dawes: Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is 'Great Loss'. YouTube, 26 Sep. 2013
Kwame Dawes Reads "The Weaver Bird" by Kofi Awoonor. YouTube, 25 Sep. 2013