Kofi Awoonor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kofi Awoonor

Ghanaian poet and author

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Gold Coast, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 21-Sep-2013

Profession: writer, poet, politician, professor, diplomat, novelist

Nationality: Ghana

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
He started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams, and was also published as Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor.
He taught African literature at the University of Ghana.
Professor Awoonor was among those who were killed in the September 2013 attack at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was a participant at the Storymoja Hay Festival.