Kofi Awoonor's "The Weaver Bird" captures the violence of dispossession, cultural domination, and the destruction of indigenous ways of being. The poem's closing lines invite us to answer the enduring question: How do we build "new homes" in the ruins of colonialism?
https://folukeafrica.com/the-weaver-bird-by-kofi-awoonor-as-postcolonial-commentary-on-loss-of-home/
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