Poems from East Africa

Poems from East Africa
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Publisher : East African Publishers
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9966460195
ISBN-13 : 9789966460196
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Poems from East Africa by : David Cook

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
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105034205927
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis An Anthology of East African Poetry by : A. D. Amateshe

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.

An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems

An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems
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Publisher : East African Publishers
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : 9966253386
ISBN-13 : 9789966253385
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems by : David Rubadiri

Millennial Voices

Millennial Voices
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9914985734
ISBN-13 : 9789914985733
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Millennial Voices by : Barack Wandera

Collective Amnesia

Collective Amnesia
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Publisher : Koleka Putuma
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:6610000280070
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Collective Amnesia by : Koleka Putuma

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
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9780803278592
ISBN-13 : 0803278594
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony by : Ladan Osman

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
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Publisher : Three Continents
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 0894108913
ISBN-13 : 9780894108914
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The New African Poetry by : Tanure Ojaide

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
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105041533857
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethiopia Unbound by : Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford

I Am An African

I Am An African
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9780957081741
ISBN-13 : 095708174X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis I Am An African by : Wayne Visser

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".

Oral Literature in Africa

Oral Literature in Africa
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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Total Pages : 614
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ISBN-10 : 9781906924706
ISBN-13 : 1906924708
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Oral Literature in Africa by : Ruth Finnegan

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.