Ghanaian poetess, Nana Akosua Serwaa Adu Boateng has revealed that her reason for pursuing poetry as a career was because of the healing it brought to her.
Speaking on an interview on Y107.9FM’s YLounge with host Akosua Hanson, she indicated that her poems did not only bring about healing but took her on a trip down memory lane which gives her an account of how far she has come on her healing journey. “It was very healing. It was also a good trip down memory lane; writing them , re-reading them just reminds you of certain experiences and certain people; sometimes you don’t even know how far you have come on your healing journey until you go back to read them; you’re like, oh my God I can’t believe I have grown through all of these things” she reiterated.
She disclosed on the interview that while writing a segment in her recently issued book, Love, Nasab titled ‘Daddy Issues’, a segment that revolves around a specific part of her life, she got to know that she carried a lot of feelings that she did not know were there. “I needed to confront these emotions and for me, I did not have the opportunity to sit with him and confront these issues or these emotions and I was like okay I am going to do what I know how to do best, deal with it through writing because as I write; to me, it’s like I’m telling him whatever I feel”.
“I was confronting feelings I didn’t even know were there, because for a long time I was like he has not been present for a long time but okay I’m fine; I didn’t know there was anger, there was pain, there was frustration; but at the end of the day there was healing” the writer expounded.
By: Kobina Badu Baidoo
