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Kofi Awoonor, Poetry and Comments

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Kofi Awoonor reads selections from Night of My Blood ; Ride Me, Memory ; Guardians of the Sacred Word , and The House by the Sea . He speaks of the different pressures, experiences, and thoughts which shaped his poetry in the 1960’s, in the United States, and in prison in Ghana in 1976. Recorded in 1978 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Digitized from a VHS copy (transcript and audio-only recording of the video will be uploaded at later date).

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University of Washington

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Kofi Awoonor, Poetry, Ghanaian -- Biography, Ghana, Ghanaian poetry, Karen Morell, University of Washington

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