Writers involved in the partnership project with Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) appeared at an online event hosted by Richmond Public Library (Richmond, BC, Canada) on November 27, 2021. To ensure that no one was lost during …
Ghanaian writers
EVENT: RML at Richmond Public Library (November 27, 2021)
Join us for this in-person and online event in which Ghanaian writers and artists from the 2020/21 Reading the Migration Library (RML) Series will read and discuss the work they have recently produced. A Q&A with the writers will follow the …
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On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana
The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …
We Are Moulting Birds
This collection of sixteen poems takes the reader through some of the multiple journeys and migrations affecting Ghanaian individuals and families. Whether transient labourers with work permits, a foreign student in Ohio, a family member in Ottawa, …
Walking on Water
Water, in this selection of sixteen poems, is as impossible a foundation for identity as are migrations. The poems grapple with sorrow and anger for homes and families disrupted by the hunger that drives dangerous, and fateful, migrations. Of those …