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I was 14 when I first read Kofi Awoonor's novel, This Earth, My Brother. Its wonderfully musical prose, its immersion in Accra's history, its obvious confidence in its place in the world, made me go to my father and ask about the other uncle.
I grew up with two writer uncles, Frank Kobina Parkes and Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. Both were devotees of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, yet never let politics affect their personal relationships. I should know; my mother is the niece of General Ankrah - the...