Back In Full Swing
Dear OGOV Readers,Hopefully, everything is worthy the wait here at One Ghana One Voice magazine.We have set the ball rolling with Elikplim Akorli (also known as thegodofpoetry) as our Poet of the...
View ArticleOld Beginnings and New Endings
Dear OGOV Readers, Receiving the reins of this seminal magazine from the illustrious Rob Taylor was one of the most important days in my life this year. Reorganizing and restructuring has not been easy...
View ArticleAn End and a Beginning
Dear OGOV Readers,When I co-founded One Ghana, One Voice with Julian Adomako-Gyimah, I hardly imagined that eight years later we would still be around. I dreamed, though it felt like a very distant...
View ArticleThree Poems from Liberia
The following poems were written in the first half of 2014 by students at Suakoko Central High School (Grades 3 to 12) in Suakoko village, Bong County, Liberia. All three of these students are members...
View ArticleInterview with Billy Kahora, Managing Editor of Kwani?
This interview, the second in our series of interviews with the founders and editors of African literary websites and journals, features Billy Kahora, whose Kenyan outfit, Kwani?, is much more than...
View ArticleInterview with Ivor Hartmann, Founder of Storytime and African Roar
This interview marks the beginning of a new occasional series of interviews with the founders and editors of African literary websites. Our hope is to collect the stories of the early efforts in...
View ArticleMaya Angelou, 1928 - 2014
Africa - Maya AngelouThus she had lainsugercane sweetdeserts her hairgolden her feetmountains her breaststwo Niles her tears.Thus she has lainBlack through the years.Over the white seasrime white and...
View ArticleLed Into Slaughter - Bernard Kudjoe
Maybe we made you angryMaybe notWhat you’ve brought forthWe cannot bear Have you forgotten so soon?You woke us up gentlyKindly displayed our tools At the doors of our eyesTamely, you led us into the...
View ArticleAuthor Profile - Bernard Kudjoe
Biography:Bernard Kudjoe lives in Wassa Akropong in the Western Region of Ghana. He received his education at Osei Tutu Senior High School in Kumasi and at the University for Development Studies. He...
View ArticleGreedy Crows - Kyilleh Dominic Arituo
- after Darko Antwi's "Scarecrow"They went to seeFor themselvesThere was no bodyOnly dry sticksWearing a white jellaba There was no fearIt is goneLike a nightmare There was no farmerNo fear –Only some...
View ArticleAuthor Profile - Kyilleh Dominic Arituo
Biography:Kyilleh Dominic Arituo was born in Fielmua, Sissala West District in the Upper West Region. After his Senior Secondary education at Lawra, he was employed by the Kwahu North District Assembly...
View ArticleGhana Poetry Festival Announcement - April 25th, 2014
Ghana Poetry Festival is a day poetry festival to be held on April 25th, 2014 at The Center for National Culture, Accra. It will feature book readings, book sales, panel discussions, performance poetry...
View ArticleWarrior's Farewell - Kwame Atta Pappoe
BrethrenTimes when you cannot fire your musketBut you mustTimes when you cannot wield your swordBut you mustMen pass away in a twinkling,But women endure.Without stepping on the battlefield,We perish...
View ArticleScarecrow - Darko Antwi
We went to seeFor ourselvesThere was no ghostOnly slamming doorsAnd flapping curtainsThere was no fearIt had vanishedLike the ghostThere was no ghostNo fear -Only some angry harmattan windKnocking...
View ArticleAuthor Profile - Darko Antwi
Biography:Darko Antwi was born in Ashanti New Town, Kumasi, in May 1976 to Kwaku Antwi and Elizabeth Donkor. After his secondary education at Bekwai Seventh Day Adventist, Antwi taught in local...
View ArticleCall for Readers - Reply ASAP
As part of their Black History Month celebrations, the US Embassy in Accra has asked our co-founder, Julian Adomako-Gyimah, to select a poet to read at an event on the morning of Thursday, February...
View ArticleThe Lucky Ones Are Not Yet Born - William Saint George
The lucky onesare still unborn.Still they livein Odomankoma's womband cast pearlsinto the oceanwe call the starry sky.They look downinto his pot,and ask the old (wo)manWhat is that black smokeand that...
View ArticleAuthor Profile - William Saint George
Biography:William Saint George is the pen name of Jesse Jojo Johnson, an Entrepreneur-In-Training at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a professional photographer and an active...
View ArticleHow Poems Work #7 - Rob Taylor on Daniel Karasik's "The Pilgrim Looks Up"
The Pilgrim Looks Up – Daniel KarasikOf a book I read last week, on the theme of memory,I’ve forgotten everything, except for a brief description of how the narrator, on returning to his Tyrolean...
View ArticleThe Pilgrim Looks Up - Daniel Karasik
Of a book I read last week, on the theme of memory,I’ve forgotten everything, except for a brief description of how the narrator, on returning to his Tyrolean childhood home, was remembered by...
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