Who is Gabriel Awuah Mainoo

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is a multiple award winning Ghanaian poet, raised as a sportsman by his father in football, racket sports and photography. He pursues tertiary education at the university of Cape Coast. Mainoo is a special prize winner of Soka Matsubara international Haiku contest, winner of 2021 Africa Haiku Prize, Forty Under 40 Awards for Authorship and Creative writing, LFP/ RML/ Library of Africa and the African Diaspora chapbook winner. Prize winner in the 2022 Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Contest & semifinalist of the Jack Grape International Poetry Prize. He’s the Author of Travellers Gather Dust and Lust, (Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe), We are Moulting Birds; (Light Factory Publication, Canada), Chicken Wings at the Altar, 60 Aces of Haiku and Lyrical Textiles; (Illum...
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Gabriel Awuah Mainoo Poems

• Afrikana
  Oh! you've forgotten this familiar voice so soon?
  I am the laborer you employed on your snow field
  When your frozen farm could not stand
  I was he, who brought you loam from my mother's graveyard ...
• Jesus At The Door In Dreadlocks
  94 days after the wrangle
  we did not taste each other's words,
  on the staircase a helpless woman gasps on a stretcher
  & that was the 7th body; going… ...

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Gabriel Awuah Mainoo Quotes

• Life is an unrehearsed drama the moment you exit it turns a perfect role.

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