However, I questioned how poetry had appeared in these indigenous lands before colonization; and as a way to decolonize my approaches to poetry, I looked about for poems written in English by poets whose roots and cultures predated English-speaking colonizers. I found a chapbook called Ride Me, Memory, which was written by the poet Kofi Awoonor and published in 1973 by the Greenfield Review Press. Awoonor, who was born in 1935 and died in 2013, was Ghanaian, of the Ewe people.
