Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology /
Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English French Portuguese Afrikaans Shona Yoruba Swahili |
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Mankon, Cameroon :
Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,
[2017]
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the editors; Contributorâ#x80;#x99;s Bio Notes; Contents; Introduction; IntroduÃão; La presentation; Part 1: Place, Heritage and Identity; I Want That Africa Go!; African sunrise; Field Notes; Lagos; Mdantsane, East London; Victoria Falls; Shelley Point; Hadeda; wind pump; Kaâ#x80;#x9D;; Identity Apples; The Africa I Know; How We Ate Fufu; Lessons; Unsung heroes (A tribute to my dad); The Spirit of its Searcher; The Naicker Patriarch; Twelve Ways of Looking at Darkness; The Black African; I too am an African; Echoes; Untitled; Questions to ask in South Africa.
- Part 2: Language, Writing, Poetry and ArtBlue Lemons; I Write to Float; My painful poetry; Rain: A Word Sonnet; dark words; Diagonal Acrostic: The Juxtaposition; Untitled; My Religion; intention; Sycophanta; Part 3: Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Inspirational, and Individual; The Sunâ#x80;#x99;s First Born â#x80;#x93; Opener of the Ways; Alive in Silver; Shangoâ#x80;#x99;s Song is Oyaâ#x80;#x99;s Nocturne; I Am Connected; I Will Not Die Tonight; Day-Dream; Rivers; Prayer; In the Botanical Gardens; Have you ever wondered?; The Epistemology of Desire; Dreaming; For?; Omi Alaafia; A Google Glass Sonnet; Flight Reflections.
- The Sky Hides its AshReality; Death; Decayed Bones and Exhaled Breaths; The glass cage; the night is a sea; Travelling Alone; Part 4: Illness, Suffering and Healing; Half Of A Human Species; Inspired Less; Ode To A Poison; The manic depressive daughter; facets; Suicide Note; To; What colour is pain; The Day Yaa Serwaa fell down the Pit Latrine; The Glass That Fell; Sometimes Table Mountain and my sister; The Lunatic And Her Brood; I, son of the streets; That Talking Tree; I Am Dead But Still Alive; A Renewed Life; Part 5: Memories, Nature and Environmentalism; The Diary (1963).
- The Summer of â#x80;#x99;69Nostalgia; First Weekend; Never Forget; The Rainbird Is Dead; Legacies; Springs Of Savanna; Homage To Once A Family; 3rd element; To Elites; Part 6: Colonialism, Corruption, Free Speech, Misgovernance, War and Strife; Brentry: An African tragedy; Limitless Spirit; Peace in the Radio; The debase; Kwashiorkor of free Speech; neWS TODay; An Angry Graduate; Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Stolen Dreams; Squatter-camps; Our Dyed-In-The-Wool Regime; A Shadow from A Dark Past; Transkei; Payday; Bangui; a Poetic Coup~ I. Papa Pomp; To our boys who bled in Bangui.
- Terra Nullius â#x80;#x93; the Marikana SymphonySunset At Westgate I; Ali Goes To School; I Writeâ#x80;Œ.; Song of the Lost; Brother (I Canâ#x80;#x99;t Breathe); Child Soldiers; For the Reign IS Falling; Part 7: Tribute, Dedication and Women Rights; Simon â#x80;#x9C;Chopperâ#x80;#x9D; Chimbetu; Yamoransa; Bye Bye Poet; Francesca; Walking With Bheki Mseleku; Mother Africa; Silence; We are Conscious Women; Deflowered; The Thing between her legs; hi-life; Lyrical Penetration; Culture; Black Eagles fly high; Her; illumination; Part 8: Postmodernism, Family, Home and love; The City â#x80;#x98;Queensâ#x80;#x99;; Ode To The Yellow Party.
