Renowned poet Nikki Giovanni is back with a latest anthology entitled “100 Best African American poems.” The book features a wide range of poets from Langston Hughes to Tupac. Host Michel Martin ...

English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...

Articles. Return to West Africa / Abioseh Nicol -- Requiem for Sophiatown / Can Themba -- Ibos as they are / Onyenaekeya Udeagu -- The widows of the reserves / Phyllis Ntantala -- Why I ran away / ...

Camille Yarborough sings African music behind a traditional "kinara" candelabra during a news preview of the Kwanzaa 2004: We Are Family' festival at the American Museum of Natural History, Dec. 22, ...

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...

In times of uncertainty, many readers turn to poetry, seeking not just consolation but clarity. “Unlocked: Poems for Critical Times” brings South African poems to those facing the isolation, confusion ...

Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, in introducing the anthology of African poetry, Poems of Black Africa (Hienemann, 1975) writes of the poetic experience in Black Africa and compares it closely ...

In Aug. 1619, a ship arrived in Point Comfort, Va., carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, the first on record to be brought to the English colony of Virginia. They were among the 12.5 million ...

One of the earliest forms of African-American narrative poetry began to appear in the 20th century. In the 1960s, Bruce Jackson went about collecting those poems, called "toasts," straight from the ...

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