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A CELEBRATION OF LIFE – For Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

I wish there was a way to re-member youOr a way for you to re-member carbon copies of your spiritTo join the African struggle for total liberationTo lift us to a realm of a fulfilling celebration III wish many will get to read youTo win for their minds many a freedom chitTo join the struggle […]

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NO SWEETNESS HERE (For Ama Ata Aidoo)

IaThere is no sweetness in your goneEven considering all that you’ve doneFrom the day your ink was born…to death’s fierce conI stand at the same place of your confused ghostTo ask if I should call your name in thanks on the coast…or through land’s queer hostAnd I sigh IbRemembering AnowaThrows showers on Our Sister KilljoyShowing […]

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ARTICLES FREEDOM

Ashawo Diaries Now on Kindle

My newest book, Ashawo Diaries, is now on Kindle! Please get yours. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FH9T7M6/ Here are some of the reviews: The titillating intrigues of a good bad girl…delightful reading: sometimes light, sometimes dark; always with ponderous insights! – Koku Dotse Ashawo Diaries makes for engaging reading, and beyond connecting with earlier literary forebears, it is important to think […]

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Ashawo Diaries (Author’s Note)

This book is important to me on many levels. This is because it honours someone who blessed me with her presence; someone I met when I was a teenager struggling to live not just for me, but for my family; someone whose outlook defied everything I was taught but influenced me positively on the haunting […]