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The breast of the Earth:

a survey of the history, culture, and literature of Africa south of the Sahara
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Anchor Press, 1975 - History - 387 pages

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Christianity
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Traditional Africa
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poetry
69
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JSTOR: The Breast of the Earth, a Survey of the History, Culture ...
Kofi AWOONOR, The Breast of the Earth, A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sa- hara, New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975, ...
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LIFE AND POETRY OF CHRISTOPHER ...
Edgar Wright, 1973); The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature in Africa South of the Sahara ( Awoonor, Kofi, 1975); ...
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Tom Gatten Literary Letters - Special Collections - The University ...
The poet, writer, and former ambassador of Ghana to Brazil, Cuba, and the UN; author of The Breast of the Earth, a survey of the history, culture, ...
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Opinion, Dialogue, Review: Unhappy family, unhappy children and ...
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The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara (1975) Anchor Press, ASIN 0-385-07053-5. STEPHEN BIKO ...
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Chapter 1
Telling the people where the rain began to beat them. History is a text. It is a text not of what has happened but of what is seen as having happened. ...
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About the author (1975)

Born in Wheta, Ghana, in 1935, Kofi Awoonor, who is now his country's ambassador to the United Nations, is an internationally recognized poet whose work has been widely translated and anthologized. He also writes novels and plays and is a keen collector and translator of oral literature from Ewe, his mother tongue, as well as a critic of modern African literature in the colonial languages. In 1979 the Ghanaian government imprisoned Awoonor for political reasons. At the time of his arrest, he was visiting his home from the United States, where he was on a one-year sabbatical from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His arrest raised an international protest. During his incarceration, Awoonor wrote The House by the Sea (1978), a piercing collection of poetry in which he reflects on his ten months in jail. His first novel, This Earth, My Brother (1971), is a highly acclaimed allegorical work set in postindependent Africa. It recounts a lawyer's search for identity and meaning in life.

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