User:Barima Adu-Asamoa

Barima Adu-Asamoa is a writer-poet, filmmaker, and cultural entrepreneur. He works in multi-media genres; his works exudes urgency and provides a critical platform to interrogate contemporary issues and historical issues relevant to Africa and Africa Diaspora within a global context. He was educated in Britain (University of the Arts, London) and lectured at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. Barman Adu-Asamoa is a researcher at doctoral level at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was commissioned by BBC CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION for the SCREENPLAY ‘NIFA’ and Producer-Director of the documentary film ‘AFRICANS IN WORLD WAR II’. He is a feature writer and has written for several magazines.

His recent publication ‘A WEEVILED HARVEST’ (anthology of poems) has a foreword written by the distinguished African-American Scholar; It is rare in human history that one discovers a poet whose voice resonates with that of the people as clearly as that of Barima Adu-Asamoa. He is at once a consummate poet and a master of the internal tensions of language that makes him an advance signal for a new coming of poetry. There is something deep and reflective in the way that this poet handles the various emotions, colors, nuances, and obstacles in our everyday life. His range is great but also his depth is profound. I like the fact that every poem appears to have been thought about, pondered, and perfected by his keen sensibilities. If Barima were not a poet; he would have to be forced to be one because we need his voice and his creative wit, dancing ironies, and meaningful metaphors. They give meaning and direction to our best artistic ideals and raise the level of an aesthetic standard. Let it be that each of us who read this book, suggest it to others, pass it on, encourage its adoption by schools, and celebrate the poet who brings us from the margins to the center of our own life'.Bold text' - MOLEFI KETE ASANTE

He is the originator of THE AHUDA BADGE, worn in memory of Africans who perished during the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Saharan Slave Trades, respectively referred to as THE MAAFA and Founder & CEO of the AHUDA Foundation - www.ahuda.org. AHUDA means ‘Great and sacred day’ from Classical Black African languages of Meduneter (Kemet - Ancient Egyptian and Akan). The symbol is extracted from the Akan Adinkra philosophical symbolism and it means Great God Almighty, is the builder. THE AHUDA FOUNDATION exists; •To promote the wearing of THE AHUDA in memory of our forebears who perished during the MAAFA. •To commemorate the lives of enslaved Africans and to celebrate their resistance, rebellion, revolution, emancipation and triumph. •To promote, disseminate, information on MAAFA through photography, books, films, and theatre, ect. •To established The Ahuda (Atonement) Mausoleums in Africa and Africa Diaspora. •To conduct research and cultural activities. •To provide relief and other assistant in Africa and the African Diaspora. •To promote international remembrance and commemorative day for the African Holocaust (MAAFA-The Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Sahara Slave Trade.) AHUDA DAY- THE MONTH OF AUGUST

Contact: www.ahuda.org E-mail: info@ahuda.org Suite 202 Kemp House 152-160 City Road London ECI 2NX UNITED KINGOM

GHANA: AHUDA FOUNATION P O BX BT 440 C2 TEMA GHANA.