Amedzofe. In biblical terms that would be our version of the Garden of Eden. In Ewe language, this place name means “the origin of mankind”. In a sense, that makes sense. The town is not only the highest human settlement in West Africa; in this part of the world, it is also the closest place to the heavens.
At Abraerica, the reception is sited on top of one block while the guestrooms are in another storey-block facing Mt Gemi. So we had to descend several steps first, before we climbed up the stairs to my room. As we moved, I could see well-lit towns very far away. It appeared the way one sees places from an airplane in the night.
“Where is that?” I asked.
“Kpandu,” he replied.
“And that?”
“Ho, Hohoe.”
Wao!
I woke up sometime after midnight. Curiosity made me run to the window. I looked hard for the view outside but I couldn’t see a thing. Was it just fog or we were enveloped in a cloud? I went back to sleep hoping to dream about the heavens.
~ Kofi Akpabli, Romancing Ghanaland
** Pictures by Isaac K. Neequaye
*Join Kofi, Alba K Sumprim and Nana Awere Damoah for book readings in Accra and Kumasi in September 2016. 3rd and 24 th respectively.
Mum Cee 
2 replies on “Book Readings by Nana Damoah and Kofi Akpabli”
Ahhh…. So beautiful. I want to go to bed in New York and wake up in Ghana! One day we will meet face to face and I will Lift my hands in Praise to the MotherLand. A kidnapped daughter returning to her Native Soil.
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And we will jubilate with you.
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