24 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Micropoetry, Poetry, Tan Renga
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Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, Ancient Roads, culture, Nature, tradition
Done for Carpe Diem.
We are to complete the following haiku by Adjei Agyei Baah, with our own two lines of 7-7 syllables each.
© Adjei Agyei-Baah
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
Mine
I tread ever so cautious
the souls not to resurrect
Tan Renga
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
I tread ever so cautious
the souls not to resurrect
21 Friday Apr 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Events, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Adjei Agyei Baah, Afriku, Celestine Nudanu, creative writing class, haiku workshop, Nature, University of Ghana
Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon
On April 17, 2017, Adjei Agyei Baah, (a world-renowned haiku poet from home) and myself facilitated a haiku workshop with students of the Creative Writing Class of the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. At the end of the workshop, the students came up with lovely haiku of their own, twenty-eight (28) in all. Adjei and I came up with one each. Mine is produced below for your pleasure 🙂
sunlight
patching up
the cracks in my dream
sunlight
(© Celestine Nudanu – 18/04/17)
(University of Ghana Workshop, 18th April, 2017, me standing before the class, clarifying a point)
Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
19 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Afriku, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
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Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, Ghana, Haiku, Red Moon Press
Review
Happy New Year to you all my lovely friends. I pray this year brings us all much joy and achievement. I am on leave but I shall be blogging every now and then.
Today, I’m posting well, a sort of review of AFRIKU, HAIKU AND SENRYU FROM GHANA. by Adjei Agyei Baah, a fellow Ghanaian and one of the first to write haiku, (long before me) in Ghana. He is the first to coin the term Afriku; haiku written to denote the peculiar culture and imagery of Africa.
Adjei’s is able to capture the depth and wealth of African sounds, sights, images and smells in simple and yet rich language. The added beauty of this debut jewel of a haiku and senryu collection is the translations from English into the local vernacular, Akan. 
How excited l was yesterday as l delved into the book and feasted my eyes and senses.
Simply check these out:
morning dew
perhaps heaven weeps
for mankind.
How very apt. How so profound.
distant cry
the heart fall
of a mother
My heart did a flip when l read this. Motherhood, the joys and pain.
just a moment –
distant lightening connects
sky and earth.
The sheer brilliance, the beauty of such a phenomenon as l imagined it.
About the Author
Adjei Agyei-Baah is a founding partner of Poetry Foundation Ghana, a teacher, and lecturer for Serwaa Nyarko Girls Senior High School, Kumasi and Institute of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana respectively. He is also the co-editor of Poetry Ink Journal, a yearly poetry anthology in Ghana. He is widely anthologized both home and abroad and among his outstanding works are the praise songs “Ashanti” and “Ghost on Guard” written for the King of Ashanti and the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana respectively.
Adjei is a devotee of the Japanese poetry form haiku and has written and published in e-zines and international journals such as Frogpond, World Haiku Review, The Heron’s Nest, Shamrock etc. and is one of the top winners of 3rd Japan–Russia Haiku Contest 2014, organized by Akita International University, Japan, making him the ultimate recipient of the Akita Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Award.
Adjei is a co-founder of Africa Haiku Network, and co-launched ‘The Mamba’, Africa’s first international haiku journal.
21 Tuesday Jul 2015
Posted in Afriku, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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Done for Haiku Horizons. And for Carpe Diem. One of Adjei Agyei Baah’s Afriku is below is my inspiration today. I’m not sure I was able to do justice though. For more of his great works, please visit Carpe Diem and Afrikuland
ancient road…
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
Mine
ancient paths
his footsteps
swept by the stench of decay
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 21/07/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
02 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Publication
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Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, culture, grinding stones, Haiku from Africa, pepper soup, Stones, tradition
Done for Carpe Diem.
CDHK features a wonderful haiku poet from , Ghana, Adjei Agyei Baah, co-founder of the Poetry Foundation Ghana. Adjei Baah has “invented” the (as he calls it) Afriku, the haiku from Africa. You can read more about the Afriku here. Below are his “stones”-haiku/afriku which he would like to share at CDHK and upon which we are to base our inspiration: I’m pleased to announce that Adjei Agyei Baah will be appearing here as a Guest soon. Be on the lookout for the interview. 🙂
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Mine
grinding stone
her ebony hue
faded in pepper soup
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 02/07/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Reading Pleasure 