Opinions

News

Sports

Business

Entertainment

GhanaWeb TV

Africa

Country

Kofi awoonor: the man and his legacy

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (10)

  • Chris kwame Awuyah 10 years ago

    Prof. Agbemabiese, Congrats of having captured the essence of Prof. Awoonor's legacy. The trauma of his loss continues. We return again and again to his voice in hope of finding a way out of the nightmare. Your tribute reflec ...
    read full comment

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    just wait...but they are spinning their wheels in their own mud!

  • Kontopiaat 10 years ago

    Dr Padmore in his exegesis, exaggerates no end because what the man stood for varies from person to person because it is like a moving target which cannot be easily aimed at. The man did his part. What has Padmore done or wil ...
    read full comment

  • insight to the bone marrow 10 years ago

    "We will not have another Awoonor, the poet, the essayist, the playwright, the statesman and visionary." We have not had any one person multiple times so yes, we will not have another Kofi Awoonor again. You listed a number o ...
    read full comment

  • koku Leonards 10 years ago

    Kudos Dr Padmore!! The Agbonugla was and is a towering philosophical,literary,political figure who will continue to inspire us from the ranks of the ancestors indeed.thank you.

  • KK 10 years ago

    Kofi Awoonor was certainly one of the best Ghana has produced. His death is painful and we are still mourning him.

    But it seems in our pain over his loss, some people have become over-enthusiastic in his praise and have lo ...
    read full comment

  • KK 10 years ago

    Sorry for wrongly spelling your name. It's Agbemabiese, not Agbemabiase...

    Sorry.

  • DUNGEON MASTER 10 years ago

    Not to sound too cliche, but I could not have written a better assessment of this so-called tribute that has clearly over-exagerated Awoonor's accomplishments--to say nothing of the author's deliberate avoidance of the man's ...
    read full comment

  • Mawuli 10 years ago

    Spare me all this hero worshiping. JJ said Awoonor was the brain behind the so-called "Revolution". So he was responsible for all the atrocities visited on innocent Ghanaians. Up till now 264 Ghanaians are unaccounted for. S ...
    read full comment

  • Ignorants 10 years ago

    Ei , Ghanaba do u have the power to curse anybody's soul? Your anger and jealousy will kill you..all die be die anyway...