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Author : Isidore Okpewho
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UVA:X000975776
Author : Frequency Rhymes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798573597768
This skillfully crafted poetic masterpiece titled, "Africa Arise" is a collage of African inspiration poems designed to celebrate the beauty of African diversity in terms of its people, luminous landscapes and wildlife. In this catalogue of emotionally provocative yet intellectually stimulating book, the author unpacks uncommon syllables of how the African continent has stood the test of time and arisen with great resilience, endurance and forbearance, in the face of raging storms and tidal waves and yet remained unfulstered.In esoteric language, the author has skillfully decoded the coded syllables on African identity, diversity and heritage, which for ages have remained an inexplicable subject. This book brims with provocative insights that provide a unique and ground-breaking entry into the wealth of untold tales and unexplored mysteries of the African land. It unveils the treasure and beauty of the African land and sends a clarion call and consciousness to all Africans to treasure and cherish it. Mother Africa is uniquely endowed by nature and beautified with the natural landscape scenery, heritage and diversity yet it is on the verge of losing the mark of its identity. Therefore, this treatise is a wake-up call for all Africans to awaken from a deep slumber and revive the pride of Africanism and embrace the core values of love, solidarity, and human dignity. Moreover, the poems hails, commend and celebrate the female heroes of the African heritage (Imbokodo), for their demonstration of resilience in the face of adversity, and siege and rising against the unjust and gruesome societal tides that has boxed them under the shadows of men.This publication is jam-packed with poetic insights that will take you through a journey out of the convictions and ordinary perceptions of Africanism to plunge into the greater depths of understanding the essence of African identity. The intellectually challenging, deeply provoking and incredibly inspiring, hard-to-get poetic rhythms and rhymes encapsulated in this book are set to revolutionise the lens through which you view the African continent and its people. The depth and density of poetic syllables it contains requires the reader to make a conscientious effort to digest its morsels, hence it is designed for those who are set on expeditions and adventures to explore the African content.Drawing from a plethora of his wealth of skills in poetic rhymes, Frequency Rhymes has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that rant and raves about the great panorama of African heritage from the primeval cataclysms that explored the continent to the economic upheavals facing much of the continent today. In incredible poetic language, the author tells the extraordinary story of how Africa overcame ferocious obstacles of war, hunger, and genocides to emerge as one of the greatest on the face of the earth. To stay relevant to current poetic trends, his writing style is delivered in an idiosyncratic and eccentric style, a very modern mix of meme-culture, quirky slang and unapologetic youth coolness. For this reason, the author is a revolutionary new voice in African poetry, emerging with authority, to claim his space and audience.The wealth and riches with which Africa is endowed in terms of the abundance of natural resources such as gold, silver and diamonds and the diversity of cultures makes Africa such a thrilling society with a unique identity. For this reason, the author describes Africa as the land of dreamers, adventurers, and explorers. In this vast and vivid panorama of historical wealth, the author discusses the fortunes of Africa which are naturally available to the African people. With compelling narrative, he expounds on how Africa can transform the jangling discords of the continent into a beautiful symphony of unity and oasis of freedom.
Author : Smith, Charles,Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783703612
This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow. In this series we further examine the status of the oral performer in African traditional societies which encouraged a wide range of human expression to create identity for members of the community Africa -and we have proposed a challenge to sustain the methods of creative transmission through the continuing presence of these African performers who are living proofs of the survival of her oral traditions, especially in the propulsion of communicative action and the communicative strength of men, women and children in the community.
Author : Charles Smith,Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783703667
This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow. In this series we further examine the status of the oral performer in African traditional societies which encouraged a wide range of human expression to create identity for members of the community Africa -and we have proposed a challenge to sustain the methods of creative transmission through the continuing presence of these African performers who are living proofs of the survival of her oral traditions, especially in the propulsion of communicative action and the communicative strength of men, women and children in the community.
Author : Landeg White,Tim Couzens
Publisher : Harlow, Essex ; New York : Longman
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000910207
Author : Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783603417
Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry is an important contribution to research in African literature by Nigerian scholar GMT Emezue. Emezue sets out to portray the role and function of African dirge. Moving from the general (African milieu) to the specific (Igbo heritage) she explores written and oral modes of poetic expressions. Emezue also posits a theory of the African dirge with features comparatively distinctive from the formalised structures of western art. GMT Emezue's interest in traditional African dirge songs and modern poetry is borne from her conviction that nowhere in the corpus of oral poetry have there been more works of heightened creativity than the dirge forms.
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865431264
Author : Ehizojie Sadoh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722366281
The poems included in this book form the author's private collection of poetry, titled Memories of a black lineage'. It is a collection which deals with Africa's past and present life and experiences and also reflects on her cultural heritage, history (with regards to pre - colonial, colonial and post colonial times) religion, social life, tradition and the western interference. The author, under this collection gives honour to everything African and renounces any hypocritical attitude or claim of superiority by any foreigner. The idioms reflect on the African norms and wisdom as handed down from generation to generation. Students are bound to come across some African idioms that may look very strange to them or seem complex for them to interpret as they study this book. Such unfamiliar idioms are often very tedious to understand when compared to the ones they usually meet in English Language text books. The purpose of including such idioms in a book like this, specially written and designed for a secondary school course is to arouse students' interest on African idioms which are common features of African prose and poetry and secondly, it will also ease students understanding of similar idioms whenever they are used in literature. They will also enable students to understand the fact that the use of idioms has always been a part and parcel of them as same are as old as the thousands of languages that are spoken all over the world. Memories of a black lineage are a title of collection of poems which has to do with the negritudian philosophy and the cradle of black civilization.
Author : Daniela Merolla,Mark Turin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783743216
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators.
Author : Stephen Abara
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1453542833
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 : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052131223X
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.
Author : R. Mwanaka,Daniel da
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789956763498
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.
Author : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1590332903
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Author : Tanure Ojaide,Tijan M. Sallah
Publisher : Three Continents
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0894108913
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.