Tag: adinkra prize winners
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Estella Apenuvor for Odo Nnyew Fie Kwan
Kaya – noun. meaning – load, luggage, burden. language – Hausa (Ghana) When we are bored, we count mother’s ribs and argue about who got it right. I always win. My cracked heels sing lullabies. I never fall asleep. These homeless truck pushers give us 10 cedis after they rape us. When we get to…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Jonathan Tetteh Kwao for in a Twistocratic Republic
the wheel will also be safe in the hands of an astrologer: he’ll pray the galaxy on our sixth presidential podium- & tell us our fate. my friend wept a “Haircut” he did not give his head for/ would’ve espied this before his Titanic sank the iceberg. he sure will tell us myriad ill monkeys…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Kwame Brenya for Gye Nyame
What the judges said Gye Nyame makes use of all the nuances one can eke out of the apparently simple, very much in the way that proverbs work, covering environmental abuses, a complicit government and the social struggles of a religion-muted people, in less than a minute. Meet the Poet Kwame Brenya is a Ghanaian…
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Ananse Ntentan by Akotowaa (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
One day, the trickster will tire of being a cautionary tale. He will drop his disguises and wear his face so well that villagers see it and quail. Woe unto those who rewrote the lore to declare conformity king. Cleverness is not punished by its offspring, and the trickster tires of being called a sin. …
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Aya: She Defies Difficulties by Beah Batakou-Meynisse (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
dust motes dance in the stream of sunlight seeping through the narrow openings beyond the wooden planks, exposed wiring, and mice. here is heaven scattering; we harvested water from these crevices. before petrichor would filter down the dingy openings, A’maa would be there, cradling her basin and my bowl. drip drop tick tock water falls…
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E No Easy by Ko-Jo Cue (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
Our blood pressure is ‘directly proportional’ to the letter E That’s a white man’s word which means; When one rears its head, the other rises with it It’s one of those words politicians use to bully us into submission Because if we don’t understand it Then we can never understand E-nflation After all, we are…
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