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Virtual Poetry Rendition: An Evening of Ahmed (Stokes) Koroma's Poetry (...)


By Paul Duwai-Sowa (PDS), Toronto, Canada
On Saturday April 11, 2021 the Sierra Leone intellectual platform, LeoneNet informally known as the “Junction” and friends of Ahmed (Stokes) Koroma (photo) will host an evening of poetry with the rendition of Koroma’s poetry collections, Of Flour and Tears, Along the Odokoko River, and The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko.
Ahmed (Stokes) Koroma a Poet? Yes! Like Raymond Sarif Easmon, a Sierra Leonean Physician famous for words than medicine, Ahmed Koroma’s education is as contradictory as the cities he writes about in his poems.
Koroma is a native of Sierra Leone where he attended two of the most prestigious boys schools, St. Edwards Secondary and the Prince of Wales. After high school, he completed undergrad in Chemistry at one of Africa’s oldest western-education-type universities, Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone. He emigrated to the United States of America to pursue graduate studies in ....

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