Ghanian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor was one of the many killed in the Nairobi terrorist attack. We’d like to share with you this short profile of him, as well as this except from a poem he wrote for his daughter.
No. I was not seeking
an athanasia; how can I
the epilogue of my own long torment
understand the prologue I dreamed you to be?
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