Atukwei okai biography of william shakespeare
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Answer: Kofi Awoonor.
More detail:
Kofi Awoonor was listed as an inspiration by nineteen different OGOV poets, far ahead of Maya Angelou, Kofi Anyidoho, and Wole Soyinka, who were each mentioned thirteen times.
The top fourteen:
Arists who most influence Ghanaian poets
1. Kofi Awoonor, mentioned by 19 poets, or 20% of all poets interviewed
2. Maya Angelou, 14%
2. Kofi Anyidoho, 14%
2. Wole Soyinka, 14%
5. Kwesi Brew, 12%
5. Atukwei Okai, 12%
5. William Shakespeare, 12%
8. Mutabaruka, 10%
9. Langston Hughes, 9%
Ayi Kwei Armah, 8%
Dennis Brutus, 8%
Leopold Senghor, 8%
John Donne, 8%
John Keats, 8%
Observations:
The diversity of this list is noteworthy: many Ghanaian authors, and others from Africa, but also English and American writers. And Mutabaruka, for good measure.
All of these artists, however, were born before Who will come after them to help inspire the next generation? Some of the other listsmay give a few hints to this, but the truth is we'll just have to wait and see
More Information:
This post marks the end of our series on Ghanaian poets' influences. Click herefor an overview of this project, and to read the lists that came before.
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Prof. Atukwei Okai is one of the greatest poets in Ghana and Africa. He is associated with the trail blazer for performance poetry in Ghana and Africa at large. He has several poems to his credit, popular amongst them include “Logorligi Logarithm”, “ Smiles” and “Rosimay”. Sad news of his death came on Friday, 13th July, , after short illness. He died at
This poem was influenced by two of his poems— “The Africa” & “Rosimaya”
Poem:
Just as you are, just as you are,
You struck our Friday
With sorrow, kept our Saturday with tears & wails
And sunk our Sunday unto its feet
So let crying women cry
And our sobbing men continue to sob;
You are our fallen king,
You are our fallen hero!
Just as you are, just as you are,
You liberated this genre
Of ours from its shackles, lit it up with your flame on stage
And opened up its door to all
So let crying women cry
And our sobbing men continue to sob;
You are our fallen king,
You are our fallen hero!
Just as you are, just as you are,
You raised a valley
Into an ancient mountain of pride & created a sacred
Shrine for it in this land, our motherland
So let crying women cry
And our sobbing men continue to sob;
You