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When The Person Who Is Called Covid Came
When The Person Who Is Called Covid Came
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For two years and beyond, the 21st century world experienced a near-apocalypse through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Millions of innocent people have died, at the hands of an invisible, merciless plague of a killer.
How have those of us, who have been left behind, coped? How do we even have the space to grieve? How are we adjusting to the clichéd ‘New Normal’? How have our lives changed? - Our love lives, our family lives, our work lives, our social lives, our faith, our health, our philosophies… How have we changed? How have Ghanaians changed?
In November 2021, Ghanaian-American poet, Apiorkor and her craft were suspended on a global stage, through live interaction with Poetry lovers, Art enthusiasts, Academics, Socialites, Opinion and Thought leaders, expats living in Ghana and the general Ghanaian public, as well as an international online audience - while the Poetic Matriarch, Apiorkor interrogated the aftermath that followed the very moment When the Person Who is Called COVID Came.
Apiorkor’s appearance on that night at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, in Accra- Ghana was anchored on a simple, yet intricate Black Box concept - enabling her Art to adequately mirror the intricacies of a virus that once seemed so inconsequential, until it overpowered the world.
Patrons of the event left the space, having been convinced that Poetry/Performance Poetry/Art are billable skills, which they can and should invest their resources in.
And now, by experiencing this encapsulating Poetry Chapbook, you too can relate to the phenomena of COVID and the [Ghanaian] Woman, The COVID News of Emotions that we Haven’t Reported and The Universal Human COVID Experience, all through Apiorkor’s razor-sharp Verse Journalism, in over twenty pieces of poignant Poetry.
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