It is a dark day at African Writers Trust thinking of Kofi Awoonor who died in Nairobi in the Westgate Mall attack. Kofi Awoonor was invited by Storymoja writers festival, 19 -22 September 2013, to celebrate writing and storytelling along with other writers from Ghana/… (Nii Kwei Parkes and Kwame Dawes) and Uganda (Femrite ladies and Beverley Nambozo Poetry Award girls) Also present were writers from Somalia, Kenya,and so on. Kofi was scheduled to perform on Saturday evening as part of a pan-African poetry showcase. Read more…
Kofi Awoonor: Dearly loved & missed. Tributes and more | African Writers Trust.
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Ijagun Poetry Journal is a quarterly journal that provides a platform from which we can tell our own stories in the authenticity of their multiplicity through the poetic medium. We don’t want to hear these stories from our master “griots” alone; we want to hear from those mastering their art, too. Hence, we aim at publishing new and emerging poets. We also welcome the works of established poets in order to encourage the poetic genius of those mastering poetic art. We prize original works that conform to, break or reinvent conventions. Again, we accept reviews and critical essays on poetry. We also accept powerful art works and photographs that make us appreciate the "poetry" in everything.