Kwesi Brew
(Osborne Henry) Kwesi Brew (1928 - 2007) was a Ghanaian poet.[1]
Life
Born to a Fante family, Brew was brought up by a British guardian after his parents died. He was one of the first graduates from the University College of the Gold Coast in 1951.[1] He was published in Okyeame, and four of his poems were included in the 1958 anthology Voices of Ghana.[2] His first published collection, The Shadows of Happiness (1968), was divided into five thematic sections: 'Passing Souls' (on death); 'Today, We Look at Each Other'; 'The Moment of Our Life' (nature); 'A Plea for Mercy' (the supernatural); and 'Questions of Our Time'.[2] His poetry has been characterized as 'the poetry of statement and situation'.[3]
Works
- The Shadows of Laughter, London: Longman's, 1968
- African Panorama and Other Poems, 1981
- Return of No Return and other poems, 1995
- The Clan of the Leopard and other poems, 1996
References
- ^ a b Killam, Douglas; Rowe, Ruth, eds. (2000), "BREW, (Henry Osborne) Kwesi", The companion to African literatures, Oxford: J. Currey, pp. 50
- ^ a b Angmor, Charles (1996). Contemporary Literature in Ghana 1911-1978: A Critical Evaluation. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. pp. 19, 134–43. ISBN 9964-978-20-0.
- ^ Edwin Thumboo, 'Kwesi Brew: the poetry of statement and situation', African Literature Today, No. 4, ed. E. S. Jones, London: Heinemann, 1970. Reprinted in R. K. Priete, ed., Ghanaian Literature, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
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Brew, Kwesi |
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Ghanaian poet and businessman |
| Date of birth |
1928 |
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| Date of death |
30 July 2007 |
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