Background
Awoonor, Kofi Nyidevu was born on March 13, 1935. Son of Kowiwo and Atsu Awoonor.
(Set in Ghana, this "novel" deals with a young lawyer, Ama...)
Set in Ghana, this "novel" deals with a young lawyer, Amamu, who suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately death, with the parallel degeneration of his society. . .Between the narrative, the author deals with political structures, African education, and the ravages of both the colonial and the neo-colonial era on the African psyche. Beyond all this, Africa is, indicted and proven guilty with no extenuating circumstances. . . From Wikipedia: "Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935 - 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams. Professor Awoonor was among those who were killed in the September 2013 attack at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya."
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The essays contained in this volume cover a period of fourteen years of research, teaching, and the creative participation in the theater, movies, television and the arts in author's home country Ghana, as well in the United Kingdom and the United States
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Diplomat English literature educator
Awoonor, Kofi Nyidevu was born on March 13, 1935. Son of Kowiwo and Atsu Awoonor.
Student, University Ghana. Student, University College London. Student, State University of New York.
Doctor of Philosophy.
Teacher and diplomatist. Fellow, Institute of African Studies. Manager Director Film Corporation, Accra.
Longmans Fellow, University of London.
Assistant Professor, and later Chairman Comparative Literature Program, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Visiting Professor, University of Texas, Austin and New School of Social Research, New New York
Formerly Professor, of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Detained in Ghana for allegedly harbouring leader of coup 1975.
On trial 1976, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment October 1976, pardoned October 1976.
Former Chairman Department, of English and Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast. SecretaryGeneral Action Congress Party. Ambassador to Brazil 1984-1990.
Adjunct Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Contributing.
(The essays contained in this volume cover a period of fou...)
(Set in Ghana, this "novel" deals with a young lawyer, Ama...)
Fellow: Fairfield, Longmans.
Married; 5 children.