Product Description: The lava of change has spilled over South Africa again as apartheid as ended. What sort of social and artistic emerges as it cools? This anthology, containing more than two hundred poems by over fifty poets, spans five distinct historical periods in the contemporary development of South Africa, from the 1960s Durban worker strikes to the dismantling of apartheid in the 1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The lava of change has spilled over South Africa again as apartheid as ended. What sort of social and artistic emerges as it cools? This anthology, containing more than two hundred poems by over fifty poets, spans five distinct historical periods in the contemporary development of South Africa, from the 1960s Durban worker strikes to the dismantling of apartheid in the 1990s...read more

Product Description: Selection of songs and sayings from numerous African languages including Swahili, Yoruba, Berber, Zulu and Amharic. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nana Asma'u Bint Usman 'dan Fodio, a nineteenth-century Muslim scholar, lived in the region now known as northern Nigeria and was an eyewitness to battles of the largest of the West-African jihads of the era. The preparation and conduct of the jihad provide the topics for Nana Asma'u's poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, Tanure Ojaide explains the uniqueness of modern African poetry, which he sees as a product of African orature and the Western literary tradition. The volume begins with "African Literature and Cultural Identity." The next chapter strives to define modern African poetic aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author argues that reading poetry in Kiswahili provides important insights into questions of language and power, as well as into discussions of socialist practice in East Africa and East African resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism...read more

Product Description: Book by Watson, Stephen

A collection of poems by women from eighteen African countries, describing the experiences of African women

Product Description: Praise poetry is a mode of verbal celebration that is distinctly African - not uniquely African, for throughout the ages and among all peoples, poetry has been uttered and written in tribute to singular existences. But in Africa praising is ubiquitous, a cultural institution cutting across ethnic differences, and expressing a profound humanism grounded in inter-relationships...read more

Product Description: This is the first scholarly analysis of the literary oral text of the epic of the Torobe Elhadj Omar Tal. Offered in this book is an original translation from the Zarma-Songhay of the Niger Republic along with four critical chapters of in-depth study of the spiritual and theological changes that gave rise to such a text...read more

Product Description: Originally published in a small edition in 1954, A Tree for Poverty was Margaret Laurence's first published book. In this new edition, Laurence's collection of Somali poems and stories is accompanied with a discussion of her life in Africa, and her in-depth investigation of the oral tradition of Somali literature...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Musho! Zulu Popular Praises Elizabeth Gunner, an authority on Zulu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Mafika Gwala, a South African teacher and poet, have translated, transcribed, and annotated a wide variety of Zulu izibongo poetry...read more

Product Description: It now includes more poems from different parts of the continent, in particular Liberian and Lusophone poetry, as well as more examples of traditional poetry. The new edition contains: * A new preface * An expanded introduction * Biographical details on the poets and a general overview of their work * A commentary, and line-by-line explanatory notes on each poem * In-depth questions for the student * A glossary of critical terms and techniques A Selection of African Poetry remains geared to the needs of school and university students throughout West Africa, as well as being a guide to African poetry for the general reader...read more

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Organizes thematically selected poems by more than seventy twentieth-century African poets, surveying the experiences of Black Africa as structured and expressed in the idioms of Black Africa

African poets representing the cultural diversity of the continent express their feelings on their people's oppression, survival, and destiny