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Kofi Awoonor, Songs Of The Village
About this film
Ghanaian writer and scholar Kofi Awoonor speaks of the great influence of the Ewe oral tradition on his work and sings several of the songs of those poets. He reads selections from his own early poetry and discusses the difficult problem of resolving the tensions between his African identity and European culture. Concludes with an interview with Karen Morell focusing on a comparison between the past of the oral tradition and the modern African poet. Recorded in 1978 at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Directors & creators
Karen L Morell
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Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poetry, Ewe poetry, African poetry, African oral tradition, University of Washington
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