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Ghananya Revisited

with Patron Henekou (Translator); Mawuli Adjei (Translator)

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Pub Date Jan 1 2027 | Archive Date Dec 31 2026


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Appearing in English and Ewe, Kofi Anyidoho’s poems in Ghananya Revisited are a lyrical tribute to the Ewe-speaking people, exploring themes of tradition, identity, resistance, community, and the evolving Ghanaian experience. Anyidoho’s poems speak to us and transform us because they are celebrative: celebrative of wisdom, of social values, of love; and of dignity, of fertility and rebirth, and of hope—or at least the promise of it. With the structure and vividness of a performance, these rhythmic and buoyant poems convert the page into a stage where the poet-persona pokes the reader’s heart with the urgency of the drum.

Appearing in English and Ewe, Kofi Anyidoho’s poems in Ghananya Revisited are a lyrical tribute to the Ewe-speaking people, exploring themes of tradition, identity, resistance, community, and the...


Advance Praise

“This is a landmark publication: Kofi Anyidoho’s voice has long sung on the page, at live events, and even in sound recordings, but here is a most rare encounter—his Ewe song harmonized with a marvelous translation by Patron Henekou and Mawuli Adjei.”—Tsitsi Ella Jaji, author of Beating the Graves and Mother Tongues

“For those of us who speak both languages, Ghananya Revisited is a gift crafted with the cadence and artistic ornaments of the Ewe language and skillfully unwrapped into English with the ceremonial finesse of royal linguists. The translators make the original poems relocate across landscapes and cultures, connecting the two linguistic worlds with a fidelity that preserves the sacredness of Anyidoho’s Word and makes reading equally rewarding in either language.”—Jerome Masamaka, author of Under the Tattered Roof

“Come to Ghananya Revisited with your calabash hungry and empty. What you will take home in this side-by-side translation are sounds from the tower of babel that you have never heard before, music, orature, poetry with an Ewe soundtrack. And as with any gift that comes in a calabash, it is to be shared.”—Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Logotherapy and Hurling Words at Consciousness

“A unique text, where the poetry and song in the original Ewe counterpunch the limpidity of their English translation, collaboratively produced by the poet and his translators.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of Other Asias

“This is a landmark publication: Kofi Anyidoho’s voice has long sung on the page, at live events, and even in sound recordings, but here is a most rare encounter—his Ewe song harmonized with a...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781496249890
PRICE $19.95 (USD)
PAGES 172

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BISAC Codes

POE007000 POETRY / African