From: roz kahumbu
Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM
Subject: [Mwananchi] TRIBUTE TO KOFI AWOONER...6PM TONIGHT AT NATIONAL MUSEUMS
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TRIBUTE TO KOFI AWOONER TONIGHT 6 PM AT NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA (PLEASE SHARE)
To all poets, artists and lovers oMf literature
To celebrate and honour the late Professor Kofi Awoonor, Storymoja, Hay Festival (UK), Occupy Nairobi Poets and friends of Prof Awoonor invite you to a memorial tribute at the National Museum tonight, 23rd September 2013 between the hours of 6.00pm and 9.00pm.
Professor Awoonor was a great African, a leading light whose footsteps leave big footprints. His legend must live on, inspiring poets and writers to be witness and chronicler of our times. We invite you to come pay tribute to him and all souls lost in the Westgate Mall siege and those bereaved, and just like the late, great professor, stand in solidarity with them by crafting words and painting pictures of the mind.
Come and sign the sympathy book for his family at the tribute. We request that all who are planning to come, carry a candle and we will participate in prayer and moments of silence. Download the Ghana national anthem and come with a copy so we can sing in solidarity with our Ghanaian kin whose loss we feel so deeply.
For it is a sensitive time, not all who wish to speak will get a chance but we can all express ourselves by visiting www.storymojahayfestival.com for the tribute link or write to us blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke to submit your tribute.
·To all poets, artists and lovers oMf literature
To celebrate and honour the late Professor Kofi Awoonor, Storymoja, Hay Festival (UK), Occupy Nairobi Poets and friends of Prof Awoonor invite you to a memorial tribute at the National Museum tonight, 23rd September 2013 between the hours of 6.00pm and 9.00pm.
Professor Awoonor was a great African, a leading light whose footsteps leave big footprints. His legend must live on, inspiring poets and writers to be witness and chronicler of our times. We invite you to come pay tribute to him and all souls lost in the Westgate Mall siege and those bereaved, and just like the late, great professor, stand in solidarity with them by crafting words and painting pictures of the mind.
Come and sign the sympathy book for his family at the tribute. We request that all who are planning to come, carry a candle and we will participate in prayer and moments of silence. Download the Ghana national anthem and come with a copy so we can sing in solidarity with our Ghanaian kin whose loss we feel so deeply.
For it is a sensitive time, not all who wish to speak will get a chance but we can all express ourselves by visiting www.storymojahayfestival.com for the tribute link or write to us blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke to submit your tribute.
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2. Binyavanga Wainaina
I hope the Nation, the Standard, The Star our Media, Our writers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Culture will come to the tribute arranged by Storymoja today at 6pm at the museum. Let us celebrate a great man, and commiserate with his family, and the people of Ghana who have lost one of their greatest poets, political figures and public intellectuals. His family is here, his body may leave for Ghana tomorrow. It is important for us to treat this with the seriousness and stature it merits. Kwame Dawes, himself a great poet, mentored by Kofi Awonoor, Nii Parkes who was close to him, are all here in Kenya - and ready to speak and write about him.
"NAIROBI, Kenya–I will travel to Ghana to be present at the burial of Kofi Awoonor. I will because he is a great Ghanaian poet. I will because he is a remarkable African thinker and mentor. I will because he traveled to Jamaica from Ghana to bury my father, his dear friend and mentor, in 1984. I will because he is my uncle, my mother's cousin.
"http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/09/22/poet-kofi-awoonor-killed-in-terrorist-attack-at-nairobi-mall/?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines
Poet Kofi Awoonor Killed In Terrorist
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