Best 'New' African Poets 2015 Anthology

Description

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.

Sujets

• Desierto del Sahara
• Sahara
• African people
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9789956764679
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Publisher:
Langaa RPCIG
Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
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North West Region
Cameroon
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Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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ISBN: 9956-763-48-9
© Tendai R Mwanaka & Daniel da Purifacação2015
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DISCLAIMER
All views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Langaa RPCIG.
About The Editors
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Contracted books coming out in 2015 include, Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now (creative nonfiction), Finding a Way Home (stories novel), Revolution (poems), Democracy, Good Governance, and Development in Africa (scholarly essays, co-editor). Other books published, Keys in the River (stories novel), Voices from Exile (poetry), Zimbabwe: The Blame Game (creative nonfiction). He is also a visual artist (photography, painting, drawing, collage, video.), sound/musical artist, mentor, translator, scholar, theorist, reviewer, editor, critic... Work has been published in over 300 journals in over 27 countries, translated into French, Germany and Spanish.
Daniel da Purificação , was born in 1983 in some place called Angola. Has a Bachelor diplome and Masters Degree. He likes to speak and read, is always thinking and writing all the time. Since 2002 he has lived out of the place where he was born. He is a Honour invited at Hispanamerican Writers summit HORAS DE JUNIO that happens every year in Sonora (México). He also works as a journalist on rádio and a freelancer, teacher at university, is a public policy consultant... He is also a recommended facilitator and he talks about society, philosophy, politics, education, democracy... He has two collections of poems (THE ANGOPOEMS and INTERMITENCIAS) that he hopes will be postdeath publications... Now he lives between México and Angola.
Table of Contents/Table des Matières/Tabela de Conteúdos
Introduction
1. Lekpele M. Nyamalon:
Dig the Graves
I will never sell you again my brother
Inside Timbuktu
2. Archie Swanson:
Non
Suleiman
In Memoriam
3. Idara Idemeko:
Black water
Filing cabinets and smoked peppers
Asymptote
4. Brok’N Sylance:
Poem 1: A promise
Poem 2
Poem 3: I am African
5. Uche Ogbuji:
March as a Lion
Rheotype
Millennium Parent Prayer
6. Ohioleh Osadebey:
I have learned to boast like my father
The thing I would love to tell my father
7. Mike Kantey:
A vision of Peace
Relegation
Night flight to Nairobi
8. Fayssal Chafaki:
A Faithful Servant O’ Him
Upon the Forgotten Rock
No Wise Man
9. Shittu Fowora:
Nouadhibou to Nouakchott
Tell
Renascence
10. Aaron Brown:
N’Djamena Morning
Song of the Workers
Twin
11. Handson Chikowore:
Cry African Girl
When Persecution is a Priority
Beauty of Botswana
12. Hailey Gaunt:
Thamalakane River, Botswana
Water Fight
The Beginning
13. Christina Coates:
Mapungwape
House of Kolmanskop
Heritage Site
14. Chuma Mmeka:
A People’s Culture
My Ekpe Dance
Once upon a Christmas Day
15. Akinlade Oluwaseyifunmi:
Jericho
That Kid
Odd Love
16. Osita Kabba:
Ancestors Arrows
Poetry Progeria
The Realm of the Man with Broken Wings
17. Zarina Macha:
Electra and Intrama
Angel Face
I Cannot Sleep
18. Freddy Macha:
Nothing is Clearer Now
Rumbling Fires
Time is the Enemy
19. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka:
Body
To the Textmaker who Leaves Nothing to Chance
The Guilty Trip
20. Afua Wilcox:
Garri and Tea
21. Kariuki wa Nyamu:
Love’s art and Love-craft
The Extraordinary Love Poem
Palaver
22. Daniel Chukwuemeka:
On the Mercy of the Knots
Your Love
In my Country
23. Troydon Wainwright:
Be there
Ideals
It Only Took a Moment
24. Togara Muzanenhamo:
The Wheel Brace
Portrait of a Water Trough
Zvita
25. John Eppel:
Coming Home to Tea
Giving
The Coming of the Rains
26. Erica Haldane:
Change
The Futility of Malevolence
27. Sheril Guzha:
Why
Poverty
Love
28. Chaun Ballard:
Spoiler Alert: Ebola
Chrysaora achlyos
Dream Catcher
29. Abbyan Ali:
Night Skies
30. Fiona Mohammed Khan:
The Leaf Would not Fall
31. John Attah Ojonugwa:
I Have Been Watching You
32. Badradeen Mohammed:
Your eyes
Arguments
33. Achieng’ Em:
Balancing on Oddity
Shadows Around Me
The Life you Thought you Could Understand
34. Hosea Tokwe:
Eyes Bound to Heaven
My Diaspora
The Sun Shines Yet
35. Tete Burugu:
Don’t Know How I Made It
Deathly Still
Cunning Linguist
Eff What I Want
36. Taijhet Nyobi:
Bold Fade
White Lover
37. deziree a. brown:
when innocence dies
what jackie’s body told
what the earth gave me
38. Sónia Sousa Robalo:
Mulher- menina
Forma de ser
Nós
39. Sábio Louco:
Tenho Guardado uns Poemas
Promessas, Proibições & N’zaia
A Cair aos Pedaços mas... não, não
40. Katya Dos Santos:
DESUMANidade
Buscas
Sensação
41. Dilen Alsungas Pandiera José:
Incrivel
Paisagem
Epitafio
42. Magno Domingos:
Quando foi tomar banho
No Calumbo baza mas não sabe de kaquilá
O primeiro filho dela é o Zé
43. Sihle Ntuli:
KwaMashu f Section Bus Stop
Martyrs
The Stranger
44. Nadeem Din-Gabisi:
Sight See on Celestial See-Saws
Know This
Foreign Tongue
45. Tulile Siguca:
*no title*
Humans Have the Ability to Endure the Circumstance
Born to Nothing
46. Alexander Khamala Opicho:
Let Me Have my Coffin
Kingly Testicles
47. Maakomele R. Manaka:
Leano on my Mind
The Sky and The City
At the Foot of Uhuru
48. Micheal Tinarwo:
Running from Homelands
A Ruthless Man
49. Wafula P’Khisa:
A Thousand Sunsets
An Empire Crumble
Chicken’s Funeral
50. Jackson Tendayi Matimba:
Ten Billy Goats
Axes Vs Taxes
Romans of Africa
51. Vincent Ajise:
Sahara Blues X
We III
Confessions
52. Godswill Chigbu:
Trinity
The New Market
New Slaves
53. C.J Chenjerai Mhondera:
Is This the Way
At King Agrippa’s Banquet
The Ruins of Dambudzo
54. Chisom Okafor:
Chains
The Bridge over Johannam
55. Edward Dzonze:
Xenophobia (SA 2008)
Narratives of a Boko Haram
Corruption
56. Charles Orji Nonso:
Gold diggers
Paragon
57. Dami Ajayi:
On Chibok
Die a Little
On Airports
58. Anthony Akoto Osei:
Foreign Tongue
Colour Blind
Melanin Active
59. Rana Al-Hassanein:
Our Autumn
Revolution Portrait
Escape
60. Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga:
Titration of the Kenyan Cocktail
There should be Places
Dear Mogadishu, School is not Haram
61. Ravi Naicker:
The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Riding Off into the Sunset
Wellington Rings a Bell
62. Judith Mian:
Listen and Hear
A Gathering
Land to Feed the Soul
63. Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe:
The Passage
My Heart Packed a Suitcase
64. Tariro Ndoro:
Harare
Cross the Border by Night
Mandisema
65. Abigail George:
Moonwalking with Science and Athol Fugard
Kevin Carter’s Ghost
The Arrangement of Light
66. Goddo Faggotte:
Memory
Grief
Lonely Progress
67. Yolanda Kumalo:
Lie To Me
How Will I Tell Him
68. Lucas Zulu:
Inseparable
In my Silence
I Write Myself
69. Delia Marie Watterson:
I Wanna Fuck
Repeat
Poison
70. Osinachi:
Death’s Fountain
My Mother’s Breasts
My Nephew’s Anus
71. Kelechi Ezeigwe:
Waiting for a Lover
72. Josaya Muianga:
Stratosphere Connected
Child of Night
Something for the Mind
73. Orimoloye Moyosore:
Home is where the heart is
The things we lose by losing
Solar Eclipse
74. Joseph Nzognin:
Water
La Poule
75. Soberano Canhanga:
Mano Decimo
No Meu Imaginario
De Baixo da Ponte
76. Milton C. Andre:
Seguinda Feira
Ser Ou Nao Ser
Chama-me Peregrino
77. Daniel d