Return of No Return and other Poems

Three poems (Don Diego at Edina (Elmina), Don Diego at Edina (Elmina) – “The Great Rebuff” and The Return Of The Native) form the centerpiece of Kwesi Brew's Return of No Return, a collection published in 1995. They were written as part of an ongoing conversation with his friend and fellow poet Maya Angelou who he had first met 30 years earlier when she emigrated to Ghana from the USA.

“No Return” was his nickname for her and a reference to the Door of No Return that featured in the slave castles that saw the earlier exile of the Middle Passage and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.