Best "new" African poets 2015 anthology / / edited by Tendai R. Mwanaka & Daniel da Purifacação

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460617103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 9956-763-49-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 841
• Soggetti: African poetry (French) - 21st century; African poetry (English) - 21st century; African poetry (Portuguese) - 21st century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About The Editors; Contents; Introduction; La présentation; Introdução; Lekpele M. Nyamalon; Dig the graves; I will never sell you again my brother; Inside Timbuktu; Archie Swanson; Non; Suleiman; In memoriam; Idara Idemeko; Black Water; Filing Cabinets and Smoked Peppers; Asymptote; Brok'N Sylance; Poem 1: A Promise; Poem 2; Poem 3: I am African; Uche Ogbuji; March Out As the Lion; Rheotype; Millennium Parent Prayer; Ohioleh Osadebey; I Have Learned To Boast Like My Fathers; The Thing I'd Love to Tell My Father; Mike Kantey; A Vision of Peace; Relegation; Night Flight to Nairobi (P7 Summit, May 2003)Fayssal Chafaki: The Poet of the Kingdom of Morocco.; A Faithful Servant o' Him; Upon a Forgotten Rock; No Wise Man; Shittu Fowora; Nouadhibou to Nouakchott; Tell; Renascence; Aaron Brown; N'Djamena Morning; Song of the Workers; Twin; Handsen Chikowore; Cry African Girl; When persecution is a priority; Beauty of Botswana; Hailey Gaunt; Thamalakane River, Botswana; Water fight; The beginning; Christine Coates; Mapungupwe; House at Kolmanskop; Heritage Site; Chuma Mmeka; A People's Culture; My Ekpe Dance; Once Upon A Christmas Day; Akinlade Oluwaseyifunmi Jericho; That Kid; Odd Love; Osita Kabba; Ancestors Arrows; Poetry Progeria; The realm of the man with broken wings; Zarina Macha; Electra and Intrama; Angel Face; I Cannot Sleep; Freddy Macha; Nothing Is Clear Right Now; Rumbling Fires; Time Is The Enemy; Tendai Rinos Mwanaka; Body; To the Text Maker who leaves nothing to chance.; The Guilty Trip; Afua Wilcox; Garri and Tea; Love's Art And Love-Craft; The Extraordinary Love Poem; Palaver; Daniel Chukwuemeka; On the Mercy of the Knots; Your Love; In My Country; Troydon Wainwright; Be there; Ideals; It Only Took a Moment Togara Muzanenhamo; The Wheel Brace; Portrait off a Water Trough; Zvita; John Eppel; Coming Home to Tea; Giving; The Coming Of The Rains; Erica Haldane; Change; The futility of malevolence; Sheril Guzha; WHY?; Poverty; Love; Chaun Ballard; Spoiler Alert: Ebola; Chrysaora achlyos; Dream Catcher; Abbyan Ali; Night skies; Fiona Mahomed Khan; The Leaf Would Not Fall; Attah, John Ojonugwa; I Have Been Watching You; Badradeen Mohammed; Your Eyes; Arguments; Achieng' Em; Balancing in oddity; Shadows Around Me; The Life You Thought You Could Understand; Hosea Tokwe; Eyes Bound to HeavenMy Diaspora; The Sun Shines Yet; Tete Burugu, aka, Neno Kali; Don't Know How I Made It; Deathly Still; Cunning Linguist; Eff What I Want; Taijhet Nyobi; Bold Fade; White Lover; Deziree A. Brown; When innocence dies; What jackie's body told; What the earth gave me; Sónia Robalo; Mulher- menina; Forma de ser; Nós; Sábio Louco; Tenho guardado uns poemas; Promessas, proibições & n'zaia; A cair aos pedaços mas... não, não; Katya Dos Santos; DESUMANidade; Buscas; Sensação; Dilen José; Incrível; PAISAGEM; EPITÁFIO; Magno Domingos; Quando foi tomar banho; No Calumbo baza mas não sabe de kaquilá
• Sommario/riassunto: Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria 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.