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Weta, Ghana

Coordinates: 6°5′0″N 0°58′0″E / 6.08333°N 0.96667°E / 6.08333; 0.96667
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Weta (Ʋeta)
Weta (Ʋeta) is located in Ghana
Weta (Ʋeta)
Weta (Ʋeta)
Location of Wheta in Volta Region, Ghana
Coordinates: 6°5′0″N 0°58′0″E / 6.08333°N 0.96667°E / 6.08333; 0.96667
CountryGhana
RegionVolta Region
DistrictKetu North Municipal

Weta (or Ʋeta) is a town in Ghana in the Volta Region. Weta (Ʋeta) is the place of birth of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor,[1][2] who died in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi on 21 September 2013.

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  1. ^ "Kofi Awoonor", NNDB.
  2. ^ "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.