Poems from East Africa

Poems from East Africa
Author: David Cook
Publisher: East African Publishers
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9789966460196

The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.

An Anthology of East African Poetry

An Anthology of East African Poetry
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.

Collective Amnesia

Collective Amnesia
Author: Koleka Putuma
Publisher: Koleka Putuma
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Since its publication in April 2017, Collective Amnesia has taken the South African literary scene by storm. The book is in its twelfth print run and is prescribed for study at tertiary level in South African Universities and abroad. The collection is the recipient of the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, named 2017 book of the year by the City Press and one of the best books of 2017 by The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa. It is translated into Spanish (Flores Rara, 2019), German (Wunderhorn Publishing House, 2019), Danish (Rebel with a Cause, 2019), Dutch (Poeziecentrum, 2020), Swedish (Rámus förlag). Forthcoming translations: Portuguese (Editora Trinta Zero Nove), Italian (Arcipelago itaca) and French (éditions Lanskine). Collective Amnesia examines the intersection of politics, race, religion, relationships, sexuality, feminism, memory and more. The poems provoke institutions and systems of learning and interrogates what must be unlearned in society, academia, relationships, religion, and spaces of memory and forgetting.

The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony
Author: Ladan Osman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0803278594

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.

The New African Poetry

The New African Poetry
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.

Ethiopia Unbound

Ethiopia Unbound
Author: Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1911
Genre: Africa, West
ISBN:

I Am An African

I Am An African
Author: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 095708174X

This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".