New Yorkers Remember Kofi Awoonor
1,312 views · Published 26 November 2013 · 9:39 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: SaharaTV · 2013 · News & Politics
On October 29, New Yorkers attended a forum remembering Professor Kofi Awoonor who was among those killed when members of Al Shabaab terrorist group stormed a packed Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on September 21st. The forum, titled "I Will Say It Before Death Comes" included several leaders in academia who celebrated Awoonor's literary achievements and his Pan-African ideas. Awoonor, 78 is remembered for his work combining the poetic and mythic traditions of his native Ewe people of Ghana. The forum was a part of an Africa Now Policy Series, organized by the African Development Institute in New York City.
