Ghanaian poet among dead in Kenya mall shooting

John Dramani Mahama on Sunday said in a statement: "I am shocked to hear the death of Professor Kofi Awoonor in the Nairobi mall terrorist attack. Such a sad twist of fate."

Kwame Dawes, a cousin of Awoonor as well as a poet who was in Nairobi at the time of the attack, said Awoonor and his son were separated when the shooting started.

"I think the son went to pick up something at the mall. Professor Awoonor was in the parking garage waiting for him," Dawes told the AFP news agency. 

"The son was shot while he was inside the mall. We don't know at what point the professor was shot."