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	<title>Storymoja Hay Festival &#187; Tribute to Professor Kofi Awoonor</title>
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		<title>Thank You, Kofi Awoonor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I am a new admirer of Kofi Awoonor and his poetry, I have been deeply saddened by the loss to the world that his tragic death has brought. From the small state of Rhode Island in the United States, I share the sadness of losing such a man. It is ever more poignant that the loss of such a great man came while he was attending the Storymoja, a peaceful gathering to celebrate life and what literature can bring to it. The circumstances of Prof. Awoonor&#8217;s life and death make it ever more incumbent that we, here in the United States, there in Africa, everywhere and anywhere, devote our lives to the celebration of LIFE and the ending of hatred and violence. Thank you, Kofi Awoonor for your life &#8211; it has made living so much more meaningful to all of us. Sincerely and with deep sadness, Jay Miller Former Judge Adjunct Professor of Law Newport, R.I., U.S.A.]]></description>
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		<title>Wole Soyinka’s tribute for the late Kofi Awoonor (and public promise to come to #SMHayFest next year)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am certain there are others who, like me, received invitations to the recent edition of the Storymoja/Hay Literature Festival in Nairobi, but could not attend. My absence was particularly regrettable, because I had planned to make up for my failure to turn up for the immediate prior edition. Participant or absentee however, this is one edition we shall not soon forget. It was at least two days after the listing of Kofi Awoonor among the victims that I even recollected the fact that the Festival was ongoing at that very time. With that realization came another:  that Kofi and I could have been splitting a bottle at that same watering hole in between events and at the end of each day. My feelings, I wish to state clearly, did not undergo any changes. Read the rest of the tribute and his promise here.]]></description>
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		<title>Ask No Questions Child: A Tribute to Brother-Elder Prof. Kofi Awoonor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for organizing the tribute for Prof. Awoonor on Monday evening. As I struggle to make sense of the past few days’ happenings… I have put a few thoughts together as my humble tribute to Brother-Elder Prof. Awoonor and within this space; I am also remembering others that have lost theirlives or got injured in this so deeply violating and unfortunate incident here in Kenya. I humbly request that you accommodate my “rogue” third main stanza of 40 lines (42 with spacing) – representing and dedicating 10 lines for each of the 4 days as we looked on painfully yet hopefully in anticipation to an end to the madness. Below is my tribute. Peace! Ask No Questions Child in memory of Brother-Elder Prof. Kofi Awoonor   ask no questions child for elders know things… laden with pregnant bindings things that feel, smell, sound like an Eagle’s thwarted soaring, solemnly crumbling, yet enfolded in arms strong like pots of the ancients, smeared with jinxed herbs for the healing incantation ask no questions child for elders know things… laden with pregnant bindings things curved out of optical-fibers, thorns, “surplus gunpowder”* seeds, grains, roots, glass, bark, rocks, thread, glue, iron, ochre, hair strands, nucleic acid, porridge, yam, sorghum, rubber, copper-lime-spewing cotton molds of cyanide, laying [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a Masterclass – Tribute to Prof. Kofi Awoonor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few people that can make a first impression so lasting that it makes you see your craft in a whole new light. I first became aware of Prof. Kofi Awoonor when I heard that he was to speak and have a masterclass at the Storymoja Hay Festival. I became interested in his work after reading a study of his work, ‘This Earth, My Brother’. His masterclass on ‘The Responsibility of the African Writer’ was especially revealing. Here was a man who had written longer than my country had been independent. He represented a link with the past, with the age-old traditions of singing and performing poetry that are now classified dryly as ‘Oral Literature’. The fact that these poems and songs of Africa have influenced genres as varied as spoken word, hip hop and rap show that African literature has a profound contribution to make to the rest of the world. He was a man who found humour in everything, even in the fact that his name had been misspelt in the event programme. He was also a man who loved language. He spoke 5 Ghanaian languages fluently, along with French, German and Dutch. Remarkably, at his age, he was also learning Portuguese [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sincere Thoughts in Honor of a Fallen Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Kofi Awoonor, killed on Saturday, September 21, 2013 at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya &#160; Terror had struck once again. The insanity of rage, and the rage of insanity continue to ransack and ravage, blatantly, pointlessly, striking out against the innocent, victimizing without any sense or reason, alleging causes for which there is no justice, aimless bloodletting without end. The perpetrators of this latest violence very obviously did not care who came into the sight of their guns… they simply aimed and fired at anything or anyone who moved, snuffing out the light of lives like candles flickering in the wind, massacring, maiming, murdering indiscriminately, targeting the young, the old, men, women, children… all of whom had done nothing to warrant these insane acts of revenge and retribution, for things done by others… in other places, at other times… &#160; One of the many who had been brutally mowed down by hails of bullets fired from assault rifles, the great Ghanaian scholar-poet Kofi Awonoor. They killed a poet, but they could not kill his poetry. The silenced a man, but they could not obliterate or invalidate his messages, the many words he had written and spoken in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to Nairobi &#8211; Johan Harstad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, &#160; I. &#160; I wanted to say that the hearts and thoughts of both me and my wife are with each and every one of you now. And they will be for a long, long time. Together with you we share the grief, the anger and the unbearable sadness that washed over us following the devastating attack on Saturday. Together with you we share the earth shattering pain over the ones who were killed, the one who were injured, the ones who were trapped inside Westgate. Together with you we mourn. &#160; Even though we are now back in Oslo, in our hearts we are still together, following you on internet via updates on websites and social media, seeing pictures of you all from the deeply moving tribute you held to remember the late Kofi Awoonor. You are not alone. Neither of you. &#160; The only ones alone are the terrorists who on Saturday thought they had the right to decide who should live and who should not. As if they were the extension of some God’s Hand. The ones who believed they had the right to inflict such harm on other people’s lives, the ones who, through [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhythm Shot Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We reminisce the demise of the word that was wise, suffice, surmise to post humorously rise in praise, A rhyme nipped before its time, robbed of its chime forcibly snatched at its utmost sublime recline, A hyperbole shot into boles, oozing life from the very dear pores, punctured by the fatal holes, Rhythm shot down so grim, yet so tragic is such a trim that grief fills to the lumps sum brim, Anger for a felled poet, aghast is the protest, within, and torments for words or lack of, now holds like totems, Makes no sense that such a presence should now recede, decide to reside into despicable silence, Into the failing of decay, of the unsay, the dim of the light of glorious day ere its arabesque gray, The dark end of a spirited array of syllables; a finale into pantomime of the unheard, The valley of the muted tongue, faint ebbing pulse, onto the annals of the unsaid. - Alex ‘unkany’ Kanyi]]></description>
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		<title>I will travel to Ghana to be present at the burial of Kofi Awoonor.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya–I will travel to Ghana to be present at the burial ofKofi Awoonor. I will because he is a great Ghanaian poet.  I will because he is a remarkable African thinker and mentor. I will because he traveled to Jamaica from Ghana to bury my father, his dear friend and mentor, in 1984.  I will because he is my uncle, my mother’s cousin. Read the rest of this tribute to Kofi Awoonor by Kwame Dawes on Wall Street Journal]]></description>
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