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| Author | : Stephen Abara |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2012-02 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : 9781453542835 |
Book of African-inspired Poetry Released Stephen Abara brings refined works of word art to the attention of the world, sharing the culture and challenges of Africa with the rest of humankind ONTARIO, Canada-- In 2008, Stephen Abara, at that time the president of the Glendon African Network, set out to organize a poetry competition within their university to further espouse understanding and support for the African people, their culture, and the challenges that face them. This book, ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN POETRY, is an outgrowth of that poetry competition, bringing the beauty, emotions, and sentiments of these Africa-inspired poets to a broader audience. In this charming, informative and highly educative book-Anthology of African Poetry-written in English and French by the young intellects at Glendon College, York University, readers will come to realize that one cannot run away from his or her problems. The past can always be found in the present, and has proven to be essential to oral tradition and literature. The poems in this book are both traditional, free verse and modern. They aim to provide readers of African descent and non-Africans with an enhanced understanding of African lifestyle and identity. Opening this book to any page will allow readers to discover a new poem to treasure or delight in all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of Africa's modern and contemporary poetry s vibrancy and abundance and depiction of its people home and abroad through arts and cultures.
| Author | : Gerald Moore |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780141181004 |
Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country
| Author | : A. D. Amateshe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
An Anthology of East Africa Poetryis a collection of recent poems from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It has been prepared for secondary school pupils and first year undergraduates.
| Author | : Donald Burness |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa's leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize. The poems concern political, personal, and social themes and are written with aesthetic simplicity and lyricism. The contributors believe that poets, rather than being exiles from their communities, are prophets, seers, and singers and have a place in everyday life. Most of the poems have been published previously. Several, however, are new, and their appearance in this volume along with an introductory essay written by each poet, makes this anthology important, original, and fresh.
| Author | : Irène Assiba d'. Almeida |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Although the past two decades have seen a wide recognition of the notable fiction written in French by African women, little attention has been given to their equally significant poetry. A Rain of Words is the first comprehensive attempt to survey the poetic production of these women, collecting work by forty-seven poets from a dozen francophone African countries. Some are established writers; others are only beginning to publish their work. Almost none of the poems here have been published outside of Africa or Europe or been previously translated into English. The poems are accompanied by brief biographies of the poets. Supplementing these are a critical introductory essay by Irène Assiba d'Almeida that places women's poetry in the context of recent African history, characterizes its thematic and aesthetic features, and traces the process by which the anthology was compiled and edited, an essay by Janis A. Mayes discussing language politics, the cultural contexts within which the poetry emerges, and literary translation strategies, and an extensive bibliography. This landmark bilingual collection--the result of ten years of research, collection, editing, and translation--offers readers of English and French entry into a flourishing and essential genre of contemporary African literature.
| Author | : Adil Babikir |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2019-09-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 149621563X |
Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection addresses a wide range of themes—identity, love, politics, Sufism, patriotism, war, and philosophy—capturing the evolution of Sudan’s modern history and cultural intersections. Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition. By bringing these voices together, Babikir provides a glimpse of Sudan’s poetry scene as well as the country’s modern history and post-independence trajectory.
| Author | : Chandni Kapur |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tanure Ojaide |
| Publisher | : Three Continents |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780894108914 |
This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.
| Author | : Camille T. Dungy |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0820334316 |
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
| Author | : Stella Chipasula |
| Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.
