Poet
An Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. His poems and stories mostly deal with the politics and society of Sierra Leone.
Source ↗Books
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Along the Peals of Drums
Ambrose Massaquoi
2016
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
His first collection.
Other poems
Their words are held back until we have permission to print them, or until we've found the whole poem.
Funk in Freetown
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Sung for Jonah
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗En You Ge De Voice
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗The Plague Advances (for Syl Cheney-Coker)
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗No Beautiful Woman
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Sleepless in America
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Bo of THEPEOPLE
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Your Love Scares Me
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗We Light Our Fires in the Village
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Temptation
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Are you Ambrose Massaquoi, or family?
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