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Funtunfunefu 'Synched'

Funtunfunefu 'Synched'

Farzia, Maysura Asher
Tordzro, Senanu Adzo
Kindon, Sara

Paperback

Series: Adinkra, Book 1

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1096574543
ISBN13: 9781096574545
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In these 101 poems we have used the creative resource and the philosophical values embedded in the 'Adinkra' symbol 'Funtunfunefu' (which depicts conjoined crocodiles - 'Denkyem' in Akan, - that share a stomach, and yet fight over food), to focus attention on how we are constantly engaged in unnecessary fights over what we all commonly own and ought to share as a global community. The theme of Funtunfunefu directs us to the awareness that there is always more than enough in the world to go around everyone without a scuffle. this international exchange between eight writers who are originally from Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, England, Iran, Scotland and Nigeria, and now live in cities on three continents; in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Accra, Wellington and Gothenburg. The poetry in this volume connects people, places, and experiences through the warmth of sharing and understanding between the writers and their readers across the world. The poems are evocative heartfelt reflections on love, freedom resilience against all odds. Gameli Tordzro has assembled multiple poetic voices to recount struggles, linger over silences, capture flashes of anger, and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. The texts lift the important values and qualities we cannot continue to underestimate; gratitude, kindness, curiosity, faith, friendship, hope. Throughout the 101 poems, we reflect on difference and sameness, on laughter and sorrow - on our entangled, synchronised lives that resembles the conjoined crocodiles 'Denkyem Funtunfunefu'.

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