This poet stated that "my mother will bear arms / and urge me to topple a government" in a poem beginning "For each hair on man, there is / a ledger in which the account / will be written".  
This poet stated that "my mother will bear arms / and urge me to topple a government" in a poem beginning "For each hair on man, there is / a ledger in which the account / will be written".  In addition to writing On Being Told of Torture, in one poem, this man stated that "the drink offering has dried up in the harmattan" and "the yam feast has been eaten by mice" after relating how "the gods are crying, my father's gods are crying" and proclaiming "Christ has risen!"  The title poem of one of his collections asks "Sew the old days for us, our fathers / That we can wear them under our new garment", while the title poem of another collection declares "this dreary half life is over / our dream will be born at noon".  This poet of Easter Dawn also authored the novel This Earth, My Brother, and his major collections of verse are The House by the Sea, Night of My Blood, and Rediscovery and Other Poems.  FTP, name this poet from Ghana.
This poet stated that "my mother will bear arms / and urge me to topple a government" in a poem beginning "For each hair on man, there is / a ledger in which the account / will be written".  
Kofi Awoonor