Ghana Poetry
Complete Analysis of Belonging by G. Adali Mortty: Themes, Literary Devices, Structure, Context and Others
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) General Introduction " B(caps) elonging" by G. Adali Mortty delves into t…
Ghana Poetry
Kenneth Gyamerah
I Am An African Child by Kenneth Gyamerah
General Introduction "I Am An African Child" by Kenneth Gyamerah celebrates the essence of African identity …
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Ghana Poetry
Akosua Nowa by Joe de Graft: The Poem and Complete Analysis
Introduction: Unveiling the Enigma of "Akosua Nowa" Joe de Graft's "Akosua Nowa" is a captivat…
Kobena Eyi Acquah
I Want to Go to Keta by Kobena Eyi Acquah
I want to go to Keta before it's washed away Before the palm-trees wither And drawn outside the bay. I want to go t…
Kofi Anyidoho
Sound and Silence by Kofi Anyidoho
Because because I do not scream You do not know how bad I hurt Because because I do not kiss on public squares You ma…
Kofi Anyidoho
Dirge for Our Birth by Kofi Anyidoho
us not ignore the testimony of our own misdeeds and impair our reasoning with a stupid reliance on prophecies of thes…
Kofi Anyidoho
Soul in Birthwaters by Kofi Anyidoho, Kofi Anyidoho
vi. Ghosts a thousand ghosts haunt our soul in birth waters this life would drown in blood hammer falls on anvil of t…
Kofi Anyidoho
Hero and Thief by Kofi Anyidoho
was counting time in the heartbeat of the storm when Fui and Enyo came riding through whirlwinds she with the dream b…
Kojo Laing
am the Freshly Dead Husband by Kojo Laing
am the freshly dead husband, I write my death to a fashionable wife: Dear Dede with the new-bought guarantees, Dede w…
Kojo Laing
Godhorse by Kojo Laing
The horse with birds on its mane, doubt on its tail… doubt about the flies being whisked north or south… crawled out …
Kojo Laing
Black Girl, White Girl by Kojo Laing
Ampa I used to walk through the streets with a black girl and a white girl and they both looked exactly alike: high che…
Ghana Poetry
999 Smiles (to Guy Warren) by Atukwei Okai
nine hundred and ninety-nine smiles plus one quarrel ago, our eyes and our hearts were in agreement full that still The…
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Ghana Poetry
Totems by Ama Ata Aidoo
I came upon an owl at the crossroads blinking with confusion greater than mine! Bird of doom. Bird of promise. Fluore…
Ghana Poetry
News by Ayi Kwei Armah
Yesterday there was another attempted coup. People are still running blind targeting the latest scapeleaders in the gam…
Ghana Poetry
Seed Time by Ayi Kwei Armah
To the hot-eyed hustler urging speed over preparation, saying knowledge of self yea probing the universe fine digging…
Kofi Awoonor
Had Death Not Had Me in Tears by Kofi Awoonor
Had death not had me in tears I would have seen the barges on life’s stream sail. I would have heard sorrow songs in …
Kofi Awoonor
The First Circle by Kofi Awoonor
1 the flat end of sorrow here two crows fighting over New Year’s Party leftovers. From my cell, I see a cold hard wor…
Kofi Awoonor
Afro-American Beats III: An American Memory of Africa by Kofi Awoonor
Black as my night, anonymous here my death in Elizabethville was your death. Blood shed in Sharpeville was shed before …
Kofi Awoonor
At the Gates by Kofi Awoonor
I do not know which god sent me, to fall in the river and fall in the fire. These have failed. I move into the gates …
Kofi Awoonor
Easter Dawn by Kofi Awoonor
READ THE ANALYSIS OF THE POEM HERE That man died in Jerusalem And his death demands dawn marchers From year to year t…