Medical practitioners, Dr. Lade Wosornu and Dr Lenrie Peters are two big names in African poetry.

Though the former is still plying his craft, there have been yearnings for another poetical force. Luckily, Sylvester Kwakye has made his way onto the stage.

The medical student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) launched his maiden poetry book titled Flying From Nectar To Hive.

The 44-page book explores themes of love, African culture, hope, the economy, religion among others.

About Sylvester Kwakye

Sylvester Kwakye hails from Krom-Adwafo in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

He is the second child of four siblings. He had his basic education at Agape Academy and proceeded to Opoku Ware School for his secondary education. As a medical student, he co-founded Study Pot— Ghana’s premier medical school peer tutoring platform.

Sylvester has a long past of poetry but with a short history that dates back to the 2009/10 academic year when he first wrote his first Twi poem in Class 3.

His passion for poetry resurfaced in the 2021/22 academic year when he lost some projects and research works which also coincided with his first love story. He was motivated to write about his current world and himself in a succinct form that later turned out to be poetry.

Sylvester went further to work on his first book—Flying From Nectar To Hive. He currently has works accepted into the Writing Women Anthology by Tendai Mwanaka, a Zimbabwean Publisher, and the Summer Issues 2023 of New Note Poetry Anthology, Charlotte, North Carolina.

He has been churning out audiovisual versions of his works via YouTube under the name, Esen Poetry.

He is currently working on some academic books together with a volume on Akan culture.

“I believe the right time lives not in the passing of events but in the minds of urgency and change and so does all these works amidst the pressures and demands of the Medicine program. I juggled it all with God whom he trusts, his family who are his best cheerleaders, and friends who he discusses many topics with,” he said.

He finds himself mentored by Prof. P. P Sampene in his Medicine program and  Multiple-award winning Poet Gabriel Awuah Mainoo.

Enjoy a poem from the book: