Will be launched on Independence Day, 6th March 2026 from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm at the Institute of African Studies, Old Site Quadrangle University of Ghana, Legos.
All are invited to a free Afternoon of Poetry, Stories and Music.
Three of AdinkraLinks authors Bernice Awotwe-Baidoo, Oforiwah Ruth and Fiona Seyram Amoabil inspecting the newly published books.
First time Authors Hodey Olympio and Bernice Awotwe-Baidoo have been published in the new Festival of Daughters Series
Bernice Baidoo senses she is, and constantly continues to become. An expression of her pain, her compassion, her love, care, confusion, constant new realisations, disappointments and disillusions in life, but also the huge capacity for hope in the face of despair, the unending capacity for resilience. All of these expressions are carried on a very sharp philosophical intelligence. I have chosen not to deliberate on any of the pieces you are about to read, and also not to go into a long exposé or summary on the anthology, I would rather you get on that journey unaided by this foreword. It is better that way, for you to chart your own course on this amazing journey into Bernice Awotwe-Baidoo’s world of words.
In I Am A Woman, Hodey Olympio presents her debut collection and wields the power of expression as her response to all forms of personal, institutional and social micro persecutions. With it, she releases herself from how these have put her under considerable pressure as a young adult. It contains pieces from her wide ranging experiential perspectives of life; how she sees the world and herself. It gracefully carries expressions of a unique voice in poetic narrative. The book is new and emergent of a young woman’s transformative journey of becoming and navigating her gradual and tentative settling into the pleasures, discomforts, fights and flights, dreams and aspirations, associated with her own maturity in thought, self-belief, knowledge and self-discovery, understanding herself and the way to finding expression in her own creative use of words fit for self reflection, commenting on and the sharing of that journey of becoming with the rest of the world.
