Awuah-Mainoo Gabriel

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is a Ghanaian writer; poet, editor & lyricist. Winner of 2021 Africa Haiku Prize, Forty Under 40 Awards for Authorship & Creative writing, special prize winner of Soka Matsubara international haiku contest, LFP/ RML/ Library of Africa and the African Diaspora chapbook winner. Prize winner in the 2022 Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Contest & semifinalist of the Jack Grape International Poetry Prize. He pursues tertiary education at the University of Cape Coast. Recipient of the West Africa Writers Residency. He’s the Author of ‘‘Travellers Gather Dust and Lust’’, (Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe), ‘‘We are Moulting Birds’’, (Light Factory Publication, Canada), ‘‘Chicken Wings at the Altar’’, ‘‘60 Aces of Haiku’’, ‘‘Lyrical Textiles’’ (Illuminated Press, US) & ‘‘Sea Ballet’’, forthcoming. He edits poetry for Goat Shed Press, UK & WGM Magazine. Mainoo’s writing has appeared in The Cicada’s Cry (US), An attempt at exhausting a place in Leicestershire volume (UK), Writers Space Africa, Fireflies’ Light (Missouri Baptist University), aAH! Magazine (Manchester Metropolitan University), Wales Haiku Journal, EVENT (Douglas College), Prairie Fire (Canada), The Haiku Foundation, Best New African Poets Anthologies (2018, 2019, 2020), Black Bamboo, among others. Mainoo is a tennis professional in the morning, a student in the afternoon, and a writer in the evening.


 

#12 Suchergebnisse

If it is for you, it is for me, it is for us and the world; you can call it a reclamation, you can call it redemption song. A true story of rap-star friend who’s lost his voice, dream and family in the goriness of war. However you call it, it is a composition for PEACE!
We don’t always need the mirror, we reflect better in people who are close to us. As a dreamer lost in myself, I wake up one day and pose questions to my father to help me find myself.
Have you ever been away from home, feeling you left the worse situation for the best? This piece is centered around a black brother who leaves the shores of Africa to go till snow. At the melting of snow he’s drowned and finally brought back to start from the scratch elsewhere. This composition is the hope for those who do not believe in the possibility of making it in their homeland and as well a remedy for the repatriated.
This composition is to establish the fact that there’s nothing like a perfect being. Love is based on complete acceptance and contentment. Two perfect (same likes) things repel, even if there is perfection it is somewhat to an extent. After all it is two different things that always attract.
There's no perfect remedy than the one nature gives. I've been broken and betrayed countless times, aftermath this very song which came out spontaneously amidst a flowery ambiance where i use to sit turns out to be my deliverance and comforter. My thanks to nature.