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  By Jamaica Baldwin

  Created as part of the African Poetry Digital Portal project.

  
  
  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  Primary Works

  Poetry in English Published As Kofi Awoonor

  Poetry in English published as George Awoonor Williams

  Poetry in Translation

  Creative Prose in English

  Creative Prose in Translation & Drama

  Critical Prose in English Published as Kofi Awoonor.

  Critical Prose in English Published as George Awoonor Williams

  Critical Prose in Translation

  As Editor

  Secondary Sources

  Interviews

  General Overviews

  Book reviews

  Critical Studies on Awoonor

  Media on Awoonor

  Thesis and Dissertations

  Works in Honor of Awoonor

  Contributors

  
  
  Introduction

  
  Primary Works

  
  Poetry in English Published as Kofi Awoonor

  Appiah, Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, eds. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

   

  Atwan, Robert, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal, eds. Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi. “Exiles (Poem).” Issue: A Journal of Opinion 9, no. 4 (1979): 60. https://doi.org/10.2307/1166914

   

  ——— Latin American and Caribbean Notebook. African Writers Library. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 1992.

   

  ——— Rediscovery, and Other Poems. Ibadan: Mbari Publications, 1964.https://www.worldcat.org/title/rediscovery-and-other-poems/oclc/132030&referer=briefresults

   

  ——— Ride Me, Memory. Greenfield Center, N.Y: Greenfield Review Press, 1973.

   

  ——— “The Anvil and the Hammer (Poem).” Issue: A Journal of Opinion 9, no. 4 (1974) 44–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/1166906

   

  ———The House by the Sea: Poems. New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1978.

   

  ———“The Light Is On.”Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire. 14, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 58–58.

   

  ———“The Wayfarer Comes Home: A Poem in Five Parts’ (1976).” University of Washington Libraries, 1976. https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/

   

  ———Until the Morning after: Selected Poems, 1963-85. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1987.

   

  ——— “We Have Found a New Land (Poem).” Issue: A Journal of Opinion. vol 9, no. 4 (1979): 31–31.https://doi.org/10.2307/1166901

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, and G. Adali-Mortty. Messages: Poems from Ghana. African Writers Series 42. London: Heinemann, 1971.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, Vinokoo Akpalu, Amega Dunyo, and Komi Ekpe, eds. Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry. Traditional African Literature. New York: Nok Publ, 1974.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, Kofi Anyidoho, and Kwame Senu Neville Dawes. The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013. African Poetry Book Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

   

  Barnett, Catherine, and Tiphanie Yanique, eds. Another English: Anglophone Poems from around the World. First edition. Poets in the World Series. North Adams, Massachusetts: Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute/Tupelo Press, 2014.

   

  Collins, Harold. “Karen L. Morell, Ed. in Person: Achebe, Awoonor, and Soyinka. Seattle: African Studies Program, Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies, University of Washington, 1975.” World Literature Written in English 15, no. 1 (April 1, 1976): 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449857608588380

   

  Goodwin, K. L. Understanding African Poetry: A Study of Ten Poets. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann, 1982. http://books.google.com/books?id=3f5ZAAAAMAAJ

   

  Hunt, Douglas. The Riverside Anthology of Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. https://archive.org/details/riversideantholo0000unse_t4z0.

   

  Kalu, Anthonia C., ed. The Rienner Anthology of African Literature. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.

   

  Kgositsile, Keorapetse. The Word Is Here; Poetry from Modern Africa. Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, 1973.

   

  Mapanje, Jack, ed. Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing. African Writers Series. Oxford: Heinemann, 2002.

   

  Moffett, Helen, and Es’kia Mphahlele, eds. Seasons Come to Pass: A Poetry Anthology for Sourthern African Students. 2nd ed. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2002.

   

  Moore, Gerald, and Kofi Awoonor. Night of My Blood Introduction. First Edition. Doubeday, 1971.

   

  Moore, Gerald, and Ulli Beier, eds. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. 4th ed. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. London ; New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

  ———New Directions in Prose and Poetry. 39. New Directions Paperbook 484, 1979.

   

  ———Nextext Anthology. Modern World Literature. A Nextext Anthology. Evanston, Ill.: Nextext, 2001.

   

  Nwoga, Donatus Ibe, ed. Rhythms of Creation: An Anthology of Okike Poetry. Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1982.

   

  Owusu, Comfort. A Selection of African Poems for S.S.S.C.E English Language (Core) (Literature): 2005 and Beyond . Accra: Author, 2002.

   

  Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=

   

  Review, The African Book. “The Cathedral | Kofi Awoonor.” The African Book Review(blog), December 9, 2015. https://theafricanbookreview.com/2015/12/09/the-cathedral-kofi-awoonor/.

   

  Senanu, K. E., and Theo Vincent, eds. A Selection of African Poetry. Harlow: Longman, 1976.

  ———“The Sea Eats the Land at Home.” AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios to 2025, 1/1/2005, 102–102.

   

  Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. “Kofi Awoonor: Hurũka Na Thayũ.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909614546805

   

  
  Poetry in English Published as George Awoonor Williams

  Aidoo, Christina Ama Ata, George Awoonor Williams, and Frank Parkes. “Ghana.” Pr??sence Africaine 57, no. 1 (1966): 300.

   

  Awoonor- Williams, George. “Desire.” Presafri Pr??Sence Africaine. No. 57 (1966): 304–5.

   

  ——— “I Heard a Bird Cry.” Presafri Pr??Sence Africaine, no. 57 (1966): 303–4.

   

  ——— “The Nim Trees the Cemetery.” Presafri Pr??Sence Africaine, no. 57 (1966): 305.

   

  ——— “The Return from Bali.” Présence Africaine, no. 57 (1966): 306.

   

  ——— “The Years Behind.” Presafri Pr??sence Africaine, no. 47 (1963): 181.

   

  Awoonor-Williams, George. “A Dirge.” Afar African Arts 1, no. 1 (1967): 50.

   

  ———“Night of My Blood.” African Arts African Arts 1, no. 1 (1967): 50.

   

  ——— “Night of My Blood.” African Arts 1, no. 1 (1967): 50–51.

   

  ——— “The Years Behind.” Transition: An International Review , no. 20 (1963): 19.

   

  Awoonor-Williams, George, Aimé Césaire, Warren d’Azevedo, and Bernard B. Dadíe. "Poémes.” Présence Africaine XLVII, no. 3 (1963): 173.

   

  Dunn, Sara, and Alan Scholefield, eds. Poetry for the Earth. 1st American ed. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992.

   

  Jabbi, Bu-Buakei. West African Poems: Fifteen Analyses. Njala: Njala University College Dept. of English, 1974.

   

  Mphahlele, Ezekiel. African Writing Today. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1970.

  Schubnell, Matthias, Tanja Stampfl, David Pryor, Hector Perez, Emily Clark, Mary Beth Swofford, and University of the Incarnate Word. The Water and Culture Reader, 2013.https://archive.org/details/watercultureread02edschu_l6f7

   

  Shelton, Austin J. The African Assertion: A Critical Anthology of African Literature. New York: Odyssey Press, 1968.

   

  Sörensen, Lennart, Linda Thørgersen, and Bille Thørgersen. African Literature: An Anthology of African Texts. Kbh.: Haase, 1973.

   

  Tibble, Anne Northgrave. African-English Literature; a Short Survey and Anthology of Prose and Poetry up to 1965. New York: October House, 1965.

   

  
  Poetry in Translation

  Spanish

   

  Awoonor-Williams, George, William Shand, and Rodolfo Benasso. Poesía africana de hoy.Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1968.

   

  French

  Awoonor, Kofi, and Sika Fakambi. La prière de mon père. French. Isabelle Sauvage, 2017.

  
  German
  
  Awoonor, Kofi. Schreckliche Heimkehr nach Ghana: Allegor. Lembeck: Erzälung: Afrika, 1985.

  
  Creative Prose in English

  Anyidoho, Kofi, and Kofi Awoonor. Praise Song for the Land Poems of Hope, and Love, and Care. 2002.

   

  Awooner, Kofi. Comes the Voyager at Last. 1979.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi. Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa. African Writers Library. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 1992.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi. The Ghana Revolution : Background Account from a Personal Perspective_. Oasis Publilshers, 1984.

   

  ———Fire in the Valley: Folktales of the Ewes. Enugu, Nigeria: Nok, 1981.

   

  ———The writer in modern Africa: (African-Scandinavin Writers’ Conference, Stockholm 1967) . Edited by Per Wästberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1968.

   

  ———This Earth, My Brother. London: Heinemann, 1972.

   

  Williams, George Awoonor. “‘Just to Buy Corn’ (a Short Story).” Eastern Horizon 3, no. 7 (1964): 57–62. https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1964-07_3_7/

   

  ——— “The Funeral’ (a Short Story).” Eastern Horizon 4, no. 5 (1965): 56–60.https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1965-05_4_5/page/n1/mode/2up

   

  ———“The Reverend’ (a Short Story).” Eastern Horizon 4, no. 6 (1965): 49–54. https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1965-06_4_6/page/n1/mode/2up

   

  Creative Prose in Translation & Drama

  Dutch

  Awoonor, Kofi, and Irma van Dam. Komt de reiziger weerom: relaas van de terugkeer naar Afrika. Amsterdam: In de Knipscheer, 1994.
   

  Ewe (or English)

  Agbemabiese, Padmore, and Kofi Awoonor. Migblem Di Kpo. Woeli Publishing, Ghana, 1996.

   

  ———Senyee Wom Alea. Woeli Publishing Services, Ghana, 1996.

  Drama

  Awoonor, Kofi. Teatro africano. Milano: Jaca Book, 1976.

   

  Pieterse, Cosmo. Short African Plays. African Writers Series 78. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972.

   

  ———SHORT AFRICAN PLAYS. LONDON: HEINEMANN, 1978.

   

  
  Critical Prose in English Published as Kofi Awoonor

  Acheampong, I. k., Issac Osei, Kofi Awoonor, and John Goldblatt. “Notes in Transition.” Transition, no. 41 (1972): 37–49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2935115

   

  Awoonor, Kofi. “A Study of the Influences of Oral Literature on the Contemporary Literature of Africa.” State University of New York, 1972. https://www.worldcat.org/title/study-of-the-influences-of-oral-literature-on-the-

   

  ———Africa: The Marginalized Continent. Accra: Woeli publ. services, 1994.

   

  ——— “Africa’s Literature Beyond Politics.” Worldview 15, no. 3 (1972): 21–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S008425590001473X

   

  ——— “CALIBAN ANSWERS PROSPERO: The Dialogue between Western and African Literature.” Obsidian (1975-1982) 7, no. 2/3 (1981): 75–98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44

   

  ———Come Back, Ghana: A Brief Political Analysis of Ghana’s Current Problems and Suggestions on How They Can Be Solved . Ghana? publisher not identified,1976.

   

  ———Energy Statistics Sourcebook. Tulsa: Pennwell, 1986.
   

  ———Ghana: A Political History from Pre-European to Modern Times. Accra: Sedco Pub. : Woeli Pub. Services, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22548242.html

   

  ———“Kwame Nkrumah: Symbol of Emergent Africa. ProQuest,” 1972. https://www.proquest.com/openview/377704e8be828eadfe6323a2bba132f2/1?p

   

  ———“Nationalism: Masks and Consciousness.” Books Abroad 45, no. 2 (1971): 207– 11. https://doi.org/10.2307/40125253

   

  ———The African Predicament: Collected Essays. Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2006.

   

  ——— The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara . 1st ed. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, Doubleday , 1975. http://books.google.com/books?id=v-EtAAAAMAAJ

   

  ———The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Press, 1976.

   

  ———The Ghana Revolution: Background Account from a Personal Perspective. Bronx, N.Y. (P.O. Box 125, Bronx 10451): Oases Publishers, 1984.

   

  ——— “The Music of Modern Africa.” Worldview 16, no. 8 (1973): 18–20. https:doi.org/10.1017/S0084255900022749

   

  ———“Tradition and Continuity in African Literature.” Dalhousie Review 53, no. 4 (1974): 665–71. https://DalSpace.library.dal.ca//handle/10222/59631.

   

  Fair, Ronald, Ishmael Reed, and Kofi Awoonor. “Fellow Writers Comment on Clarence Major’s Work.” Black American Literature Forum 13, no. 2 (1979): 73–74. https://doi.org

   

  Kilson, Marion, Wande Abimbola, and Kofi Awoonor. “Ifa Divination Poetry.” Journal of Religion in Africa Journal of Religion in Africa 9, no. 3 (1978): 227.

   

  Kunene, Mazisi, Daniel Kunene, and Kofi Awoonor. “Panel on South African Oral Traditions.” Issue: A Journal of Opinion_ 6, no. 1 (1976): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/1166 566.

   

  Mphahlele, Ezekiel, J. P. Clark, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Kofi Awoonor, et al. “The New Mood in African Literature.” Africa Today 19, no. 4 (1972): 54–70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185264

   

  Priebe, Richard, ed. Ghanaian Literatures. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 120. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

   

  Rothenberg, Jerome, and Diane Rothenberg, eds. Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

   

  Smith, Rowland, ed. Exile and Tradition: Studies in African and Caribbean Literature. Dalhousie African Studies Series. London: Longman u.a., 1976.

   

  Yitah, Helen, and Helen Lauer. Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives. BRILL, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004392946

   

  
  Critical Prose in English Published as George Awoonor Williams

  Beier, Ulli. Introduction to African Literature an Anthology of Critical Writing from Black Orpheus. Evanston Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1967. http://books.google.com/books?id=tKlkAAAAMAAJ

   

  Wästborg et al, Per, and African-Scandinavian Writers’ Conference. The writer in modern Africa. Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1968. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-1335

   

  Williams, George Awoonor. “Modern African Literature.” Eastern Horizon 3, no. 8 (August 1964): 5–10. http://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1964-08_3_8

   

  
  Critical Prose in Translation

  Dutch

  Awoonor, Kofi, and Irma van Dam. Komt de reiziger weerom: relaas van de terugkeer naar Afrika. Amsterdam: In de Knipscheer, 1994.

   

  
  As Editor

  Awoonor, Kofi, and G. Adali-Mortty. Messages: Poems from Ghana. African Writers Series 42. London: Heinemann, 1971.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, Vinokoo Akpalu, Amega Dunyo, and Komi Ekpe, eds. Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry. Traditional African Literature. New York: Nok Publ,1974.

   

  Mooij, Martin, Gerritsen, J, and Kofi Awoonor. Dichters in tachtig: programmaboekje Poetry international 1980. Rotterdam: Rotterdamse kunststichting, 1980.

   

  Secondary Sources

  Interviews

  Africa, Interviews with Black African Writers and Artists, ca. 1962-1969_, 1962.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi. “Interview with Kofi Awoonor.” Kunapipi 1, no. 2 (May 1, 2014). https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol1/iss2/11

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, and Robert Serumaga. “George Awoonor-Williams, Writer, Poet and Director of the Ghana Film Corporation, Interviewed by Robert Serumaga.” Cultural Events in Africa. No. 29 (1967).

   

  Boni, Tanella. Tanella Boni: Does the West regard us as human beings? Interview by Sara Babiker. El Salto TV, July 9, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVY4SuSSqg

   

  Bozimo, Willy. “Politics? It’s for Scoundrels: Kofi Awoonor.” Sunday Times_. February 6, 1977.

   

  Ephson, Ben. “Historical Forces.” West Africa, November 4, 1985.

   

  “Ghana: Visionary Writer Fights ‘Moneybag Politics’: An Interview with Kofi Awoonor.” To The Point, June 30, 1978.

   

  Goldblatt, John, and Kofi Awoonor. “The Common Tongue.” Transition, no. 75–76 (1997): 358–63.

   

  Goldblatt, John, Issac Ossei, I.K. Acheampong, and Kofi Awoonor. “Notes In Transition." Transition , no. 41 (1972): 37–49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2935115#metadata_info_tab_contents

   

  “Kofi Awoonor on Poetry and Prison.” West Africa, April 17, 1978.

   

  Kunene, Mazisi, Daniel Kunene, and Kofi Awoonor. “Panel on South African Oral Traditions.” Issue: A Journal of Opinion 6, no. 1 (1976): 5. https://doi.org/10.2307/1166566

   

  Lindfors, Bernth. Palaver; Interviews with Five African Writers in Texas: Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele and Kofi Awoonor. Austin: African and Afro-American Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 1972.

   

  Morell, Karen L, Chinua Achebe, Kofi Awoonor, Wole Soyinka, University of Washington, and African Studies Program, Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies. “In Person--Achebe, Awoonor, and Soyinka at the University of Washington.” Class Discussion, Seattle, 1975.

   

  Munroe, Ian, and Wayne Kamin. “Interview with Kofi Awoonor.” Kunapipi 1, no. 2 (November 1, 1979). https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol1/iss2/11

   

  Pieterse, Cosmo, and Dennis Duerden. African Writers Talking: A Collection of Interviews. Studies in African Literature. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972.

   

  Wilkinson, Jane, ed. Talking with African Writers: Interviews with African Poets, Playwrights & Novelists. Studies in African Literature. London : Portsmouth, N.H: J. Currey ; Heinemann, 1992.

   

  Willemse, Hein. “Kofi Awoonor in Conversation with Hein Willemse.” Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde_ 41, no. 2 (May 4, 2018): 186–97. https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v41i2.29685

   

  General Overviews

  Adewale Maja-Pearce. Awoonor, Kofi (1935-). Oxford University Press, 2013.

   

  Brockman, Norbert C. An African Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Pub, 2006.

   

  Cox, Brian, ed. African Writers. New York : London: Charles Scribner’s Sons ; Simon & Schuster Prentice Hall International, 1997.

   

  Darmani, Lawrence. Poetry Appreciation for Literature in English. Accra-North: Step Publishers, 2005.

   

  Klein, Leonard S., ed. African Literatures in the 20th Century: A Guide. New York: Ungar Pub. Co, 1986.

   

  “KOFI AWOONOR (1935-).” Postcolonial African Writers. Routledge, 1998. Lindfors, Bernth, and Reinhard Sander. Kofi Awoonor. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, First Series. First. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

   

  Noel-Tod, Jeremy, and Ian Hamilton, eds. The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Second edition/edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

   

  
  Book Reviews

  Abrahams, Cecil. “Book Review: The Breast of the Earth, a Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara.” Canajafristudrev Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des ??Tudes Africaines 11, no. 1 (1977): 143–45.

   

  Achebe, Chinua, and Kofi Awoonor. “This Earth, My Brother.” Transition , no. 41 (1972): 69. https://doi.org/10.2307/2935118

   

  Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. “Book Review: The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013, Written by Kofi Awoonor. 2004.” African and Asian Studies 14, no. 1–2 (March 27, 2015): 157–59. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341323

   

  Ajayi, Dami. “The Promise of Hope: A Review | Wawa Book Review,” March 25, 2016. https://wawabookreview.com/the-promise-of-hope-a-review/

   

  Anyidoho, Kofi. “Book Review: Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry.” Reseafrilite Research in African Literatures 12, no. 3 (1981): 394–98.

   

  Bordinat, Philip. “Kofi Awoonor. The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.” World Literature Written in English 15, no. 1 (April 1, 1976): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449857608588377

   

  Bruner, Charlotte. “Review of Kofi Awoonor. Until the Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985.” Explorations in Sights and Sounds_ 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1989): 3–4. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ess/vol9/iss1/4

   

  CONDE, Maryse. “Review of THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER...” Présence Africaine , no. 82 (1972): 152–53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24350344

   

  Dameron, Charles. “Book Review: Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry.” Booksabroad Books Abroad 50, no. 1 (1976): 223–24.

  
  Killiam, G.D. “Kofi Awoonor: The Breast of Earth.” *The Dalhousie Review,* 1976, 143–56. URL.
   

  Kilson, Marion. “Book Review: Ifa Divination Poetry.” Jreligionafrica Journal of Religion in Africa 9, no. 3 (1978): 227–28.

   

  ——— “‘Guardians of the Sacred Word. Ewe Poetry’ (Book Review).” Journal of Religion in Africa/Religion En Afrique: Leiden 9, no. 3 (January 1, 1978): 211. https://www.proquest.com/openview/877d161b0aa20cc80e47d3f582443802/1?p

   

  Larson, Charles R. “Review of This Earth, My Brother....” Books Abroad 46, no. 1 (1972): 165–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/40126053

   

  Moore, Gerald. “Review of The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara.” The Modern Language Review 72, no. 3 (1977): 651–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/3725413

   

  Nazareth, Peter. “Review of The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara.” Research in African Literatures 6, no. 2 (1975): 265–76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3819068

   

  Palmer, Eustace. “Review of The Breast of the Earth.” Research in African Literatures 16, no. 4 (1985): 619–23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3819497

   

  Panter-Brick, S.K. “Fiction and Politics: The African Writer’s Abdication.” Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 13, no. 1 (1975): 79–86.

   

  ———“Fiction and Politics: The African Writer’s Abdication.” Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 13, no. 1 (1975): 79–86.

  
  Parkes, Nii. “Review: My Hero Kofi Awoonor.” *The Guardian,* Sep 28, 2013,  5. URL.

  Priebe, Richard. “Review of The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara.” Books Abroad 49, no. 4 (1975): 834–35. https://doi.org/10.2307/40130029
   

  Taylor, John. “Discovering New African Poets.” *Antioch Review,* no. 2, 2015, 372–80. URL.
   

  Wright, Derek. “Kofi Awoonor: The Ambassador-Poet.” Third World Quarterly 17, no. 1 (March 1996): 177–177. http://libproxy.unl.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=t

   

  Yankson, Kofi. “This Earth, My Brother...: A Study in Despair.” University of Cape Coast English Department Workpapers 4, 1972.

   

  
  Critical Studies on Awoonor

  Achebe, Chinua, and Kofi Awoonor. “Introduction to This Earth, My Brother.” Transition, no. 41 (1972): 69. https://doi.org/10.2307/2935118

   

  Adika, Prince Kwame. “Post-Colonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering in the Novels of Kofi Awoonor.” In ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today_, edited by Ernest M. Emenyonu, New Edition., 158–72. African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

   

  Adjei, M. “Back-to-Africa’, ‘Double Consciousness’ and the African Diaspora: Confronting the Myth and the Reality in Ghanaian Fiction.” Legon Journal of the Humanities 23 (2012): 33–55. https://doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v23i0

   

  Adjei, Muwali. “Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry.” In ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today, edited by Ernest M. Emenyonu, New Edition., 137–50. African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

   

  Adu, K. B. O. “Rethinking The Wound: A Reading of Trauma in James Matthews’ Poems from a Prison Cell and Kofi Awoonor’s The House by the Sea.” Thesis, University Of Ghana, 2016. http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/23382

   

  Agbozo, Gabriel Edzordzi. “Revisiting ‘Home’ in Ghanaian Poetry: Awoonor, Anyidoho and Adzei.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21, no. 6 (September 9, 2019).

   

  Akhuemokhan, Sophia. “The Man in Khaki and the Man in the Street: A Study of ‘This Earth, My Brother’ and ‘Sardines.’” Okike : An African Journal of New Writing Okike, no. 49 (2008): 6–21.

   

  Amoabeng, Kwaku, and Carrol Lasker. “Kofi Awoonor: An Annotated Bibliography.” Africana Journal : A Bibliographic and Review Quarterly Africana Journal 13, no. 1/4 (1982): 173– 214.

   

  Amuzu, Koku. “Landscape as Expression of Alienation: Armah, Awoonor, Soyinka.” English in Africa 20, no. 1 (1993): 77–89. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40238707

   

  Anyidoho, Kofi. “Kofi Awoonor and the New Tradition of Songs of Abuse (Halo).” In Toward Defining the African Aesthetic , edited by Lemuel A. Johnson. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1982.

   

  Anyidoho, Kofi, Abena P. A Busia, Anne V Adams, African Literature Association, and Meeting, eds. Beyond Survival: African Literature & the Search for New Life. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1999.

   

  Apronti, E. O. “On Naming ‘Traditional Oral Literature.’ Research Review Research Review 9, no. 3 (1972): 126–36.

   

  Ayivor, Kwame. “The Prodigal Hero Returns to His Aboriginal Home: A Reading of Kofi Awoonor’s This Earth, My Brother.” Alternation 6, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 58–79. https://doi.org/10.10520/AJA10231757_153_
  
  ——— . “Individualism Versus Traditionalism in Four African Novels: Noni Jabavu, Es’kia Mphahlele, Ferdinand Oyono and Kofi Awoonor.” Pretexts: Literary & Cultural Studies 8, no. 1, 1999, 17–34. URL.

  Ayuk, Ojung. “Environmental Decadence: A Theme in Post-Independence African Fiction.” Africana Journal : A Bibliographic and Review Quarterly Africana Journal 13, no. 1/4 (1982): 142–51.

   

  Babkar, Abdelkader. Narrating the Nation in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor, 2016.

   

  Bordinat, Philip. “Kofi Awoonor. The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara." Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.” World Literature Written in English 15, no. 1 (1976): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449857608588377

   

  Chinweizu. “Surfaces of Dillusion.” Okike 6, September 1974.

   

  Colmer, Rosemary. “Kofi Awoonor: Critical Prescriptions and Creative Practice.” ACLALS Bulletin 5, July 1978.

   

  ——— “The Restorative Cycle: Kofi Awoonor’s Theory of African Literature.”New Literatures Review, May 1977.

   

  Coussy, Denise. Littératures du Nigéria et du Ghana. 2,Poésie, Théatre, Musique. Paris: Adpf, 2000.

   

  Currey, James. “Literary Publishing After Nigerian Independence: Mbari as Celebration.” Research in African Literatures 44, no. 2 (2013): 8–16. https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.44.2.8

   

  ——— “Magic and Realism from Ghana, the Gambia and Sierra Leone.” Africa Writes Back:The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature. 2008, 71–84.

   

  Dathorne, O. R. “Tradition and the African Poet.” Présence Africaine, no. 63 (1967): 202–6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24348961

   

  Deandrea, Pietro. Fertile Crossings: Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature . Cross-Cultures 53. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

   

  Duclos, Jocelyn-Robert. “‘The Butterfly and the Pile of Manure’: A Study of Kofi Awoonor’s Novel, This Earth, My Brother.” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines 9, no. 3 (1975): 511–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/484138

   

  Early, L. R. “Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1975). https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/32477

   

  Egudu, Romanus N. Four Modern West African Poets. New York: NOK Publishers, 1977. http://books.google.com/books?id=BvtZAAAAMAAJ

   

  Elimimian, Isaac Irabor. “Kofi Awoonor as a Poet.” Orature in African Literature Today / Edited by Eldred Durosimi Jones. 1992, 35–48.

   

  ———Theme and Style in African Poetry. Lewiston: E. Mellen, 1991.

   

  Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, ed. Politics & Social Justice. African Literature Today 32. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Ibadan, Nigeria: James Currey ; HEBN, 2014.

   

  Emenyonu, Ernest N. ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, 2014. http://www.myilibrary.com?id=663891

  
  Furay, Michael. “African Literature in the Berkeley War.” Research in African Literatures , vol 1, no. 1, Spring 1970, 70–75.
   

  Glover-Meni, Nathaniel, and Samuel Bewiadzi Akakpo. “Literature and Culture: A Critique of Selected Works of Kofi Awoonor and Ama Ata Aidoo.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 2, no. 3 (July 17, 2020): 47–61. https://royalliteglobal.com/hybrid-

   

  Goodwin, K. L. Understanding African Poetry: A Study of Ten Poets. London ; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann, 1982.

   

  Haynes, John. “Song and Copy: The Relation Between Oral and Printed in Kofi Awoonor’s ‘Dirge.’” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 20, no. 1 (1985): 118–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/002198948502000111

   

  ———The Poetry of Africa: An Introduction for Students. London: Macmillan, 1989.

   

  Humanities Center, Richmond, VA, Ruby Lee Norris, Sally Harris Sange, and Richmond Humanities Center VA. Last But Not Least My Poem An Exploration with Writers in the Classroom. Dialogue Series, Volume III . Place of publication not identified: Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.

   

  Hunter, Walt. Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282241

   

  ———“The No-Prospect Poem: Lyric Finality in Prynne, Awoonor, and Trethewey." The Minnesota Review: A Journal of Creative and Critical Writing 85 (2015): 144–52.https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-3144702

   

  Hurley, E. Anthony, Renée Brenda Larrier, and Joseph McLaren, eds. Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated . Annual Selected Papers of the ALA, no. 4. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 1999.

  
  Igwe, Ezuma. B. “Three African Poets: A Critical Review.” Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts 11, no. 12 (1971): 83–90.
   

  Johnson, Lemuel A., and African Literature Association, eds. Toward Defining the African Aesthetic. 1st ed. Annual Selected Papers of the ALA 6/1980. Washington, D.C: Three Continents Press, 1982.
   

  Jones, Eldred D., ed. Myth & History: A Review. African Literature Today 11. London: Heinemann u.a., 1980.
   

  ———, ed. Orature in African Literature Today: A Review. 1. publ. African Literature Today 18. London: Currey u.a., 1992.

   

  Ker, David I. The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition. Studies in African and African American Culture 12. New York, NY Bern Frankfurt am Main Berlin Vienna: Lang, 2000.

   

  Knipp, Thomas R. “Myth, History and Poetry of Kofi Awoonor.” African Literature Today 1 , 1980, 39–61. https://archive.org/details/mythhistoryrevie0000jone/page/n5/mode/2up

   

  Kolawole, Mary Ebun Modupe. “Kofi Awoonor as a Prophet of Conscience.” African Languages and Cultures 5, no. 2 (1992): 125–32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1771777

   

  Kparevzua, Priscilla Queen. “Sociolinguistic Aspects of Meaning in Kofi Awoonor’s, This EartMy Brother... (1971) and Comes the Voyager at Last (1992).” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2021). https://www.royalliteglobal.com/hybrid-literary/article/view/419

   

  “La litterature Negro-Africaine = Black African literature.” Canadian journal of African studies Canadian Journal of African Studies 9, no. 3 (1975): 407–566.

   

  Lindfors, Bernth, and Reinhard Sander, eds. Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. First Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 117. Detroit: Gale Research Inc, 1992.

   

  Maduakor, Obi. Critical Theory & African Literature Today: A Review. Edited by Eldred Durosimi Jones. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32021084.html

   

  ——— “Kofi Awoonor as Critic.” African Literature Today : A Journal of Explanatory Criticism African Literature Today, no. 19 (1994): 8–21.

   

  ——— “The Legacy of Suffering: The African Slave Past in Contemporary West African Literature.” Transgressing Boundaries : New Directions in the Study of Culture in Africa. ed. by Brenda Cooper and Andrew Steyn. - Cape Town : University of Cape Town Press Etc., 1996, 153–61.

   

  Mamudu, Ayo. “Kofi Awoonor as Poet.” Kiabàbà. 5 (1982): 173–93.

   

  McKoy, Sheila Smith. “This Unity of Spilt Blood": Tracing Remnant Consciousness in Kofi Awoonor’s "Comes the Voyager at Last.” Research in African Literatures 33, no. 2 (2002): 194–209. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820981

   

  Moody, Harold Leonard Birch. Kofi Awoonor, This Earth, My Brother: A Critical View. Edited by Yolande Cantù. London: Collins u.a., 1985.

   

  Moore, Gerald. Twelve African writers. London; Melbourne; Sydney: Hutchinson University library for Africa, 1980. https://www.worldcat.org/title/twelve-african- writers/oclc/464522341&referer=brief_results

   

  Moore, Gerald, and Kofi Awoonor. Night of My Blood Introduction. First Edition. Doubeday, 1971.

   

  ———“The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa

   

  South of the Sahara.” The Modern Language Review 72, no. 3 (1977): 651. https://doi.org/10.2307/3725413

   

  Mphahlele, Es’kia. “The New Mood in African Literature.” Africa Today Africa Today 19, no. 4 (1972): 54–70.

   

  NWOGA, Donatus I. “Shadows of Christian Civilization : The Image of the Educated African in African Literature.” Présence Africaine, no. 79 (1971): 34–50. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24350423

   

  Ogunsanwo, Olatubosun. Awoonor’s This Earthy My Brother. A Personal Memoir. Research Online, 2017.

   

  Ojaide, Tanure. “Contemporary Africa and the Politics in Literature,” 2015.

   

  ———Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking. African Histories and Modernities. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

   

  ——— “The Changing Voice of History: Contemporary African Poetry.” Genève-Afrique : revue de la Société suisse d'études africaines et de l'Institut universitaire d'études du développement] = Geneva-Africa : journal of the Swiss Society of African Studies = Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Afrika-Gesellschaft,_ 1989.

   

  Ojo-Ade, Femi. “Madness in the African Novel: Awoonor’s This Earth, My Brother.” African Literature Today 10 , n.d.

  
  Okooampa-Ahoofe, Kwaame.Jr. “Kofi Awoonor: ‘Tribal’ Neo-Oralist.” The Nassau Review, vol 8, no. 2, 2001, 107–29.
   

  Ola, V. U. “The Futility of Individual Aspiration in the African Novel.” Utafiti : Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Dar Es Salaam Utafiti 8, no. 2 (1986): 20–28.

   

  Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Jane, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David Vincent Trotman, eds. Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History . Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008.

   

  Parekh, Pushpa Naidu, and Siga Fatima Jagne, eds. Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio- Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook . Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998.

   

  Priebe, Richard, ed. Ghanaian Literatures. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 120. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

   

  Priebe, Richard K. Myth, Realism, and the West African Writer. 1. print. Comparative Studies in African Caribbean Literature Series. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,1988.

   

  Ryan, Connor. “Regimes of Waste: Aesthetics, Politics, and Waste from Kofi Awoonor and Ayi Kwei Armah to Chimamanda Adichie and Zeze Gamboa.” Research in African Literatures 44, no. 4 (2013): 51–68. https:// doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.44.4.51

   

  Saint-André, Eliane. “Rites of Passage in the Poetry of Kofi Awoonor.” Commonwealth (Dijon) 8, no. 2 (Spring 1986): P. 67. https://www.proquest.com/openview/9ea442c133742983e400c3b691b14225/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818263

   

  Secovnie, Kelly O. “Ama Ata Aidoo and Kofi Awoonor: Pan-Africanism Reconstructed.” Obsidian 8, no. 2 (2007): 113–28. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44489262

   

  Snyder, Emine. “New Directions in African Writings.” Pan-African Journal Pan-African Journal 5, no. 2 (1972): 253–61.

  
  Sterling, Cheryl. “Chapter Thirteen- Requiem to Kofi Awoonor Through His Novels 'This Earth, My Brother and Comes The Voyager at Last." Transnational Trills in the Africana World, 2019, 284-304.

  
  Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi. Kofi Awoonor: The Essays of a Humanist. Brill, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004392946_010

   

  Taylor, John. “Poetry Today: Discovering New African Poets.” The Antioch Review 73, no. 2 (2015): 372–80. https://doi.org/10.7723/antiochreview.73.2.0372

   

  Theroux, Paul. “A Study of Six African Poets: Voices out of the Skull.” Introduction to African Literature: An Anthology of Critical Writing. 1979, 120–41.

   

  Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. “Kofi Awoonor: Hurũka Na Thayũ.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909614546805

   

  Tucker, Martin. “Kofi Awoonor: Restraint and Release.” English in Africa 6, no. 1 (1979): 46–51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40238445

   

  ———. “Kofi Awoonor’s Prison.” Worldview 22, no. 11 (November 1979): 22–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0084255900051342

   

  Utudjian, Elaine Saint-Andre. “Aspects of Myth in Two Ghanaian Novels’ - ProQuest.” Accessed August 10, 2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1311491422?fromopenview=true&imgSeq=1

   

  ——— “Rites of Passage in the Poetry of Kofi Awoonor’ - ProQuest.” Accessed August 10, 2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1311480831?fromopenview=true&imgSeq=1

   

  Wright, Derek. New Directions in African Fiction. Twayne’s World Authors Series, no. 869. New York : London: Twayne Publishers ; Prentice Hall International, 1997.

   

  ——— “Returning Voyagers: the Ghanaian Novel in the Nineties.” J. Mod. Afr. Stud. The Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 1 (1996): 179–92.

   

  ———“Ritual and Reality in the Novels of Wole Soyinka, Gabriel Okara and Kofi Awoonor.” Kunapipi 9, no. 1 (July 20, 2017). https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol9/iss1/12

   

  —— “Scatology and Eschatology in Kofi Awoonor’s This Earth, My Brother...” International Fiction Review, January 1, 1988. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/article/view/13894

  
  Yaw Asante. “Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013).” In Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 51:74. Accessed November 4, 2022. [URL.](https://paperity.org/p/207734752.)
   

  Yoon, Duncan M. “‘Our Forces Have Redoubled’: World Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 2, no. 2 (September 2015): 233–52. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2015.11

   

  على, غادة حسين سيد, and Ghadah Husayn Sayyid Ali. “Two West African Voices in Search of Decolonization: Kofi Awoonor and Christopher Okigbo.” مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب 17, no. العدد السابع عشر الجزء الثالث (August 1, 2016): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.21608/jssa.2016.11342

   

  
  Media on Awoonor

   
   

  Awoonor, Kofi. A Poet Reads His Work, Kofi Awooner. Stony Brook: Educational Communications Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978.

   

  ———Kofi Awoonor Interviewed by Dennis Duerden in London, July 1968. Cassette Recording | LP Recording. London: Transcription Feature Service, 1968. https://www.worldcat.org/title/kofi-awoonor-interviewed-by-dennis-duerden-in-london-july-1968/oclc/1323091758&referer=brief_results

   

  ———“Kofi Awoonor Reading from His Poems.” Audio. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.20540 USA. Accessed June 16, 2022. https://www.loc.gov/item/88740076/

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, A Horse for the Master. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, Ancestral Power. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, Going Home. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, On Which Shores. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, The Offering. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  ———Performance of Kofi Awoonor’s Radio Play, The Return. (Audiotape of Radio Program). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1968.

   

  Awoonor, Kofi, Karen L Morell, Darrell Prowse, Ken Stevens, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, African Studies Program, University of Washington, and Instructional Media Services. Kofi Awoonor: songs of the village, 2013.

   

  Karen Morell. The Hunter and the Gazelle (Ewe Language Version), 1985. http://archive.org/details/hunter_and_gazelle_uwlibraries_oclc19943398

   

  Morell, Karen L. Karen Morell Africa, New Orleans, and Trinidad Audiovisual Collection. , 1972. Robert Serumago Interviews Ghanaian Author George Awoonor-Williams Concerning His Participation in the Afro-Asian Writers Conference, Held in Djakarta in 1963. (Audiotape). London? Transcription Feature Service, 1964.
   

  Serumaga, Robert. Interview with George Awoonor-Williams. Transcription Feature Service. 1964.
   

  University of Washington. Kofi Awoonor, Poetry and Comments, 1979. http://archive.org/details/uwlibraries_oclc14261670

  
  Thesis and Dissertations

  Colmer, Rosemary Margaret. The Development of the Sub-Saharan Black African Novel in English: With Special Reference to the Works of Achebe, Awoonor, Soyinka and Armah, and Their Relevance to the Emergence of New Concepts in African Aesthetics, 1979.

   

  Donkor, Nabi. Exegesis of Local Expressions in the Writings of Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor (George Awoonor-Williams), 1976, 1976.

   

  Egudu, Romanus N. The Matter and Manner of Modern West African Poetry in English: A Study of Okigbo, Clark, Awoonor-Williams and Peters, 1966.

  
  Exegesis of Local Expressions in the Writings of Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor (George Awoonor-Williams), 1976. Accessed November 4, 2022. URL.
   

  Morrison, Kathleen A. Spiritual Significance and Aesthetic Implications. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1993.

   

  Ndong N’Na, Ygor-Juste (1978- ) (Author) Naumann, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, (Degree grantor), and 996. La folie dans le roman africain du monde anglophone: Achebe, Ngugi, Awoonor, Armah, Head). S.l. : s.n., 2008.

   

  Neasman, Everett G. Triangular African Diaspora in the Poetry of Kofi Awoonor, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage, and Caryl Phillips’ Crossing the River, 1998.

   

  Okwu, Edward Chukwuemeka. The Artist-Figure in Modern West African Poetry: An Approach to the Poetry of Awoonor, Okigbo and Soyinka, 1978.

   

  Ouedraogo, Amadou. Le symbolisme aquatique dans les oeuvres de Wole Soyinka, Ayi Kwei Armah et Kofi Awoonor. Variation: Lille-thèses., 1988.

   

  PUJO, JOSEPH (Author) Auteur. PROBLEMES DE SOCIETE AU GHANA DANS LES OEUVRES DE AYI KWEI ARMAH, KOFI AWOONOR ET AMU DJOLETO. Bouyssou, Roland. ; (Thesis advisor); Directeur de thèse. S.l.: s.n., 1984.

   

  Walker, William Alexander. Major Ghanaian Fiction in English: A Study of the Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonor, 1975.

   

  
  Works in Honor of Awoonor

  Anyidoho, Kofi. “Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect.” In ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today , New Edition., 121–34. African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

   

  ———“Song for Nyidevu.” In ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today, New Edition., 173–173. African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

   

  Asante, Yaw. “Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013) : Tribute.” Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde 51, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 74–76. https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v51i1.6

  
  Asante, Yaw, and et al. “Tribute: Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013).” Pretoria 51 , no. 1 (2014): 74–76.

  
  Bruchac, Joseph. “LETTERS: THE TRIAL OF KOFI AWOONOR–An Open Letter.” The American Poetry Review 5, no. 4 (1976): 47–47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27775354

  
  Boyd, Herb. “Esteemed Author and Diplomat Kofi Awoonor Killed in Nairobi Attack.” New York Amsterdam News, September 26, 2013, 104 edition, sec. 39. [URL.](https://web-p-ebscohost-com.libproxy.unl.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=8&sid=115401bf-30a7-420b-8739-10cf83bb1230%40redis).

   

  Cole, Teju. “Letter from Nairobi: ‘I Will Say It Before Death Comes.’” The New Yorker. September 26, 2013. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/letter-from- nairobi-i-will-say-it- before-death-comes
   

  “Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is a Great Loss for Ghana and Poetry" Poetry Foundation, November 4, 2022. [URL.](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/video/77405/death-of-kofi-awoonor-in-nairobi-attack-is-great-loss-for-ghana-and-poetry).

   

  Kazin, Alfred. “Appeal for Kofi Awoonor | Alfred Kazin.” Accessed July 19, 2022. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1976/09/30/appeal-for-kofi-awoonor/

   

  Keleko, Yewande. “Awoonor Awarded Poetry Prize.” West Africa. No. 3745 (1989): 29.

   

  “Kofi Awoonor - Ghanaian Poet and Statesman.” Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series. 50, no. 9 (2013): 19868A-19868A. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-825X.2013.05356.x

   

  Kwame Dawes Reads “The Weaver Bird” by Kofi Awoonor. Accessed August 9, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNlrkiiJnE

   

  Memorial for Poet Killed in Kenya’s Westgate Mall Attack. Accra: Associated Press, 2013. https://video.ebscohost.com/c/cysalf/details/1_focubgkt?q=SU%20awoonor%2C

   

  Mwanaka, Rinos, and Ricardo Flix. Writing Grandmothers: Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2. African Books Collective, 2019.

   

  Negash, Ghirmai. “Kofi Awoonor: Poem for a Mentor and Friend.” In ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today, New Edition., 135–36. African Literature Today. Boydell & Brewer, James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2014. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zstb2?turn_away=true

   

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