african poetry

An anthology of modern African poetry, featuring the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries.

A collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.

Presents a collection of one hundred oral and written poems of Africa grouped under eight major themes.

Presents poems of various styles and themes by more than sixty African poets of various ideologies; poets' home countries include Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Contains selections of 51 poets from Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

An anthology of poetry by women from all over the African continent.

An anthology of modern African poetry, featuring the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries.

An anthology of African poetry written in English over the last thirty years.

Presents three stories and two poems from Kenya.

Presents traditional and twentieth-century poems from sub-Saharan Africa that reflect the spirit and history of the region, written in or translated into English.