Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor among Westgate mall victims | World news | theguardian.com
A renowned Ghanaian poet was among the scores of casualties of the Westgate shopping mall attack in
Kenya.
Prof Kofi Awoonor, a former diplomat, was killed in the attack in Nairobi. He was in the city attending the Storymoja Hay literary festival, a celebration of pan-African writing and storytelling.
His fellow Ghanaian poet Nii Ayikewei Parkes said people attending the festival had realised something was wrong when Awoonor, known affectionately by many in
Ghana as "Prof", failed to turn up for a session at which poets from west
Africa and east Africa were due to perform a reading.
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