{"id":4231,"date":"2013-09-22T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:19:29","slug":"the-world-mourns-kofi-awonoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4231","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian author killed in Westgate shoot out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kawonoor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4232\" alt=\"kawonoor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kawonoor-233x300.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kawonoor-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kawonoor-220x282.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kawonoor.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The governments of Ghana and Kenya have expressed their condolences to the family of the late author and ex-Chairman of Council of State, Kofi Awonoor. He is reported to have been shot at the Westgate mall in Kenya yesterday by al-shabab militants while he was shopping with his son. According to some reports, his son was also shot, but survives and is responding well to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>President John Mahama of Ghana described his death as <i>shocking<\/i>, while President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to hunt down the killers. The late Kofi Awonoor was in Kenya to attend the Storymoja Hay Festival; a 4-day writing, thinking and storytelling workshop. He was due to perform later yesterday before his death.<\/p>\n<p>The Late Kofi Awonoor was one of the giants of African traditional poetry. He will be fondly remembered for his remarkable fusion of elements of traditional and contemporary poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Photo from gbcghana.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governments of Ghana and Kenya have expressed their condolences to the family of the late author and ex-Chairman of Council of State, Kofi Awonoor. He is reported to have been shot at the Westgate mall in Kenya yesterday by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4231\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}