Goethe-Institut hosts Brian Gyamfi and Ato Kwamena Boxer for September’s night of poetry
The event – styled “Goethe Abansoro” – will include poetry readings and discussions. It will be moderated by Dr Martin Egblewogbe, an author
The Goethe-Institut, in collaboration with the Writers Project of Ghana, is hosting the poets Ato Kwamena Boxer and Brian Gyamfi for this month’s night of poetry.
The event – styled Goethe Abansoro – will take the format of poetry readings and discussions. It will be moderated by Martin Egblewogbe, an author and lecturer in the physics department of the University of Ghana, Legon.
Dr Egblewogbe is also the the host of Writers’ Project on Citi.
Poets’ profile
Ato Kwamena Boxer
Bernard Ato Kwamena Boxer is a Ghanaian poet and artist who lives and works in Ghana. He uses Ato Kwamena Boxer as his artist name.
Ato Kwamena expresses his feelings by exploring colours on canvas to depict varied human lifestyles and activities in many different kinds of spaces.
He believes that art is the expression of everything and anything beyond the limit of the known and common. His life experiences and challenges end up becoming the driving force of what he effects with his paintings.
Ato Kwamena is a graduate of the University of Ghana, where he studied agriculture.
Brian Gyamfi
Brian Gyamfi is a Ghanaian-American poet from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.
He is passionate about improving the discourse surrounding pan-African ideology and the intersection of black identity and oneness. Thus, much of his work explores womanist pedagogy, collective trauma and how the idea of truth is shaped by traditional norms, spirituality and politics in pre-and post-colonial African history.
Brian was named a Benjamin Gilman Scholar in 2018 and a McNair Scholar in 2019. He won the UT 2020 UGS Student Writing Flag Award for his poem “Like Electricity Over the Makombo Village” this year and placed second for the Gutow Poetry Prize for his poem “to Benin to Cape Verde to Côte d’Ivoire”.
At present Brian is a Rackham Merit Scholar at the University of Michigan in the United States.
Goethe Abansoro takes place tonight (Wednesday 8 September, 7pm) at the Goethe-Institute in Cantonments, Accra. It will be a hybrid event.
It will be streamed online by Zoom (ID: 839 2744 4989, passcode: 339444) and all COVID-19 protocols will be fully observed for patrons who want to experience the evening in person.
Nana Abena Boakye-Boateng
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