Kofi Awoonor: Remembering a Ghanian poet

Date: 9/22/13
Source: BBC Africa
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24213762
Author: Elizabeth Ohene
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     Kofi Awoonor was born in Wheta, on March 13 1935. As a young man he loved dance, music, and rhythm, he was the life of the party. He also had a good way with words and could to his way in and out of things. He was famous for his poet, writer, acting, dramatist, teacher, politician, diplomat, and statesman skills. Now at 78 he probably wasn't the same ladies man that he was during his younger days, but he still has the same passion for Ghana, writing, and the black community as a whole. It is sad to end his legacy with such a gruesome death form an al-Shabab operator. Also what makes this death so unfit for this legend is that he was killed in the publics eyes. Kofi was attending a literary arts festival in Nairobi when he was killed in a siege at a Kenya shopping centre by a terrorist that was part of the al-Shabab.