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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Brew, Osborne Henry Kwesi
Biography
Ghana
Birth date: 1928-05-27
Birth location:
Cape Coast,
Ghana
Death date: 2007-07-30
Kwesi Brew was born in 1928 in Ghana, and would become a renowned poet and diplomat. Brew won a British Council poetry award after his graduation from University College of the Gold Coast in 1951. His poems would appear in the Ghanaian journal Okyeame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwesi_Brew
Education
- University College of Ghana
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