
Ghananya Revisited
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Appearing in English and Ewe, Kofi Anyidoho's poems in Ghananya Revisited are a lyrical tribute to the Ewe-speaking people, exploring themes of tradition, identity, resistance, community, and the evolving Ghanaian experience. Anyidoho's poems speak to us and transform us because they are celebrative: celebrative of wisdom, of social values, of love; and of dignity, of fertility and rebirth, and of hope--or at least the promise of it. With the structure and vividness of a performance, these rhythmic and buoyant poems convert the page into a stage where the poet-persona pokes the reader's heart with the urgency of the drum.
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Kofi Anyidoho is a Ghanaian poet and a professor of literature at the University of Ghana. His books of poetry include Elegy for the Revolution, A Harvest of Our Dreams, Earthchild, Ancestral Logic and Caribbean Blues, Praise Song for the Land, and The Place We Call Home and Other Poems. He is the editor of Kofi Awoonor's The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 (Nebraska, 2014). Patron Henekou is a poet, playwright, and cofounder of the International Festival of Literature and Arts at the University of Lomé, Togo, where he is an assistant professor of English literature and creative writing. Mawuli Adjei is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is the author of several books, including Bakudi's Ghost and Zadokeli.