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==Early life== George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams was born in [[Wheta]],<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news |date=2013-09-23 |title=Kofi Awoonor: Remembering a Ghanaian poet |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24213762 |access-date=2023-12-15}}</ref> in the [[Volta region]] of what was then the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], present-day Ghana. He was the eldest of 10 children in the family.<ref>Jocelyn Edwards, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/kofi-awoonor-death-_n_3991296.html "Ghana Mourns Kofi Awoonor Death"], ''Huff Post Books'', 25 September 2013.</ref> He was a paternal descendant of the Awoonor-Williams family of [[Sierra Leone Creole]] descent. His grandmother was an Ewe [[dirge]] singer.<ref name=":0" />
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