Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kwame-dawes-reads-34-the-weaver-bird-34-by-kofi-awoonor Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanian poet, diplomat and academic, was among the victims murdered in a terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi. Awoonor’s nephew Kwame Dawes, another renowned poet, was traveling with his uncle to attend a literary festival in Kenya when he was killed. Dawes joins Jeffrey Brown to remember his uncle.