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 …
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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 …
Ghanaian Writing On Migration and Diaspora
Three poetry chapbooks are bound together in the set, Ghanaian Writing on Migration and Diapsora: On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana by A.B. Godfreed & SAANWe are Moulting Birds by Gabriel Awuah MainooWalking on Water by Jay Kophy The cover …
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Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing
Reading the Migration Library, in partnership with criticalMediArtStudio at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, will soon be embarking on an experimental creative project that will …
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