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Harmattan Poems

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Forty poems written across three dry seasons in Accra, Kano and Ouagadougou. Dust, distance and long-distance phone calls.

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    9 Jan 2025

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Set in a large face with generous margins, because these need the room.

Kwabena Asante, Editor at Large Ouida Books

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Kwame Mensah

Poet & short-story writer, Accra

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Kwame Mensah writes about the hours nobody schedules anything in. Small Hours in Accra is eleven linked stories, all set between midnight and five.

He signs and numbers every hardcover himself, which is why there are only ever three hundred.

  • Accra, Ghana
  • Writes in English

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Ouida Books
Publication date
9 Jan 2025
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88 pages
File size
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