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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Kofi Anyidoho: an Ewe poet between tradition and change |
Author: | Wilkinson, Jane |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 543-573 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Ewe literature poetry |
About person: | Kofi Anyidoho (1947-) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40760329 |
Abstract: | A profound sense of unity and continuity has animated the Ewe people to this day, inspiring the work of their major artists and writers. Even when their production appears to be concerned exclusively with problems of the present, or to express individual moods and meditations, it must be viewed against the background of Ewe history and culture for its significance and value to be appreciated to the full. This article deals with the work of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Anyidoho (b. 1947), and shows how he draws on the images, myths and rhythms of Ewe traditional poetry. At the very basis of his poetry is the principle of continuity, conceived, however, not as a mere imitation or repetition of traditional themes, but as a starting point for an original creation, as a rope - a central image in Ewe tradition used to express continuity - that he must lengthen and renew. Notes, ref., sum. in French and Italian. |