For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa’s new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry ...

For poet and diplomat Abhay K, Africa was never a subject to be “covered” so much as a world to be entered with humility. Vast and layered, the continent is home to coffee, sweeping deserts, dishes ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

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

"Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, 11-17 June, 1962." "Makerere College - Kampala, Uganda"--Added title page. Cover title. AFA copy 39088009748310 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution ...