Anthology Of African Poetry

Author : Stephen Abara
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1453542833

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Anthology of African Poetry by Stephen Abara Pdf

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 : Tanure Ojaide,Tijan M. Sallah
Publisher : Three Continents
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0894108913

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The New African Poetry by Tanure Ojaide,Tijan M. Sallah Pdf

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 : Frank M Chipasula
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780809386383

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Bending the Bow by Frank M Chipasula Pdf

From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent’s celebrations and explorations of the nature of love, he expands African literature into the sublime territory of the heart. Bending the Bow traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialogue. The anonymously written love poems fromPharaonic Egypt that open the anthology both predate Biblical love poetry and reveal the longevity of written love poetry in Africa. The middle section is devoted to sung love poetry from all regions of the continent. These great works serve as the foundation for modern poetry and testify to love poetry’s omnipresence in Africa. The final section, showcasing forty-eight modern African poets, celebrates the genre’s continuing vitality. Among those represented are Muyaka bin Hajji and Shaaban Robert,two major Swahili poets; Gabriel Okara, the innovative though underrated Nigerian poet; Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal and a founder of the Negritude Movement in francophone African literature; Rashidah Ismaili from Benin; Flavien Ranaivo from Madagascar; and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Ranging from the subtly suggestive to the openly erotic, this collection highlights love’s endurance in a world too often riven by contention. Bending the Bow bears testimony to poetry’s role as conciliator while opening up a new area of study for scholars and students.

Author : A. D. Amateshe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034205927

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An Anthology of East African Poetry by A. D. Amateshe Pdf

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
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015029467118

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Echoes of the Sunbird by Donald Burness Pdf

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 : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141912905

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore Pdf

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.

Author : Dick Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African poetry (English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017797957

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Revival by Dick Dawson Pdf

Author : David Gretch
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781532071249

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Save Africa by David Gretch Pdf

Africa, Your righteous disorders Break my heart ... — Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe’st, Uganda “This Anthology exposes both the sorry-state and unspoken nature of Africa, and Her people, in this recent time. A masterpiece that wakes up an African to have a conscious conscience.” –Udekwe Chikadibia Enugu State, Nigeria As pollution and global warming threaten the balance of life on our planet, the beautiful continent of Africa is in crisis. In the wake of greedy corporations mining valuable natural resources, and through the exchange of rights to such resources, large regions of Africa are under a terrible reign of social injustice, with atrocities including ritualistic rape and murder, artificial war, induced famine and extreme political corruption. In an anthology created to illuminate these atrocities, twenty-one African poets share over one hundred poems that highlight the problems plaguing their homeland. Through poignant verse, these poets offer often shocking insight into a land known for its generosity of spirit and warmth of its people who bravely stand strong in the face of unthinkable tragedy.

Author : Adil Babikir
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781496215635

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Modern Sudanese Poetry by Adil Babikir Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9966955208

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Our Stories Redefined by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rinos Mwanaka,Nsah Mala
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781779065254

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Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology by Rinos Mwanaka,Nsah Mala Pdf

Best New African Poets 2018 Anthology follows volumes in 2017, 2016 and 2015. In this fourth volume of these continent-wide anthologies of African poetry we have work from 154 African poets from over 30 African countries and the African Diasporas. There are poems in English, French, Portuguese, Sepedi, Shona, Yoruba, and Asante Twi languages. In 2018 there was a notable increase in the number of entries with memorable novelties regarding poetic experimentation: some of the poets have daringly sliced up words playing around with the spatial and structural patterns of their texts on paper. This may be described as both textual and visual poetry. Reading the poems becomes a journey with many paths, where the reader walks according to poetic rhythms and the hesitating breaks of action verbs and enjambments.

Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1891885804

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Home is where by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes Pdf

In Home is Where, Kwame Dawes compiles the work of more than two dozen African-American poets from the Carolinas, showcasing a vast array of original voices writing on subjects ranging from Jim Crow to jazz, haunted landscapes to romantic love--all in an attempt to define the South as home. Dawes, the nationally celebrated poet, dramatist, scholar, novelist, essayist, and founder of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, edits this new and unparalleled anthology from Hub City Press. The poets range in notoriety, from National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes, PEN American Open Book Award winner Nikky Finney and Ansfield-Wolf Award winner A. Van Jordan, to poets perhaps less recognizable by name, but whose poems you will immediately recognize as powerful, musical, and accomplished. In his introductory essay to the anthology, Dawes proclaims the necessity of this collection, not only for the purposes of getting extraordinary poetry into the hands of readers, but also in terms of the political importance of the voices represented. What is in these pages is nothing less than a significant part of the contemporary poetry scene in America, and also a piece of American history, that in the past has not received its due credit. With Home is Where, that credit is restored.

Author : Keith Tuma
Publisher : Miami University Press Poetry
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015063673845

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Rainbow Darkness by Keith Tuma Pdf

Poetry. African American Studies. RAINBOW DARKNESS gathers poems by a range of established and newer African American poets including Jeff Allen, Wanda Coleman, C. S. Giscombe, Terrance Hayes, Kim Hunter, Honoree Jeffers, Nathaniel Mackey, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Reginald Shepherd, Timothy Siebles, Evie Shockley, Lorenzo Thomas, Natasha Trethewey, Anthony Walton, Crystal Williams, and Tyrone Williams, and essays by Herman Beavers, Aldon Nielsen, Kathy Lou Schultz, Evie Shockley, and Lorenzo Thomas. The collection grew from poems and talks presented at the Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry held at Miami University in September 2003. The anthology hopes to extend the conversations that took place at the conference to another, larger audience.

Author : Tony Medina
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040179445

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Catch the Fire!!! by Tony Medina Pdf

A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry

Author : Patricia Schonstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1874915202

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Africa! My Africa! by Patricia Schonstein Pdf

"These poems are all touched in some way by Africa and represent the diverse voices of well-established poets, Nobel Laureates and poets as yet unknown. They convey pictures simple and profound, pensive and beautiful." -- Back cover.