Books of Poetry / African
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قرد على الشباك: قصائد مختارة
By Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, رضى، الصادقAl-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. Famous in his native Sudan, the vivid imagery of his searing, lyric poems create the world afresh...
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Oral Poetry from Africa: An Anthology
By Jack Mapanje, Landeg WhiteOral Poetry from Africa: An Anthology
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The Voice of the Night Masquerade: Poems
By Ezenwa-OhaetoThe author explains his poetic mission thus: 'it is the cultural tradition in my part of the world, that when abominations become unbearable, and the truth must be told with...
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Sankofa: Stories, Proverbs and Poems of an African Childhood
By David AbdulaiSANKOFA is a book of African folktales, proverbs, poetry & wise sayings stemming from the African tradition of the griots. The folktales & proverbs in SANKOFA weaves imaginative myths, offers...
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Whispers in the Wings: Poems
By Frank Mkalawile ChipasulaArranged in four movements and a finale, these poems confront tyranny in Malawi and then travel outwards through the rest of Africa, dealing with oppression, exile and the nature of...
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Moonsongs
By Niyi OsundareNiyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1991. Moonsongs won Honourable Mention...
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The Insomniac Dragon: Poems
By EbereonwuA further title in the Kraftgriots poetry series. Ebereonwu's poetry is the restless song of the city, the night and vampires. Animal imagery recurs and reverberates through the collection. In...
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The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry
By Frank Mkalawile Chipasula, Stella ChipasulaOver the centuries, African women have composed songs of praise for mythic heroes, memorized epic poems that tell the history of their people, and expressed their concerns, both personal and...
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Winnie
By Gwendolyn BrooksA group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South...
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Skipping Without Ropes
By Jack MapanjeJack Mapanje was head of the Department of English at the University of Malawi in Malawi, Africa, when arrested in 1987 after his first book of poems, Chameleons and Gods,...
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Another Africa
By Chinua AchebeTwo great talents have joined together to create a unique d gorgeous book that fuses photographs, poetry, and text to create a view of present-day Africa that moves beyond the...
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Many People, Many Voices: An 0-level Poetry Anthology Adapted for Examination Purposes by the Zimbabwe School Examination Council
Many People, Many Voices: An 0-level Poetry Anthology Adapted for Examination Purposes by the Zimbabwe School Examination Council
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Modern Poetry from Africa
By Gerald Moore, Ulli BeierModern Poetry from Africa
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A Selection of African Poetry
By Kojo E. Senanu, Theo VincentA revised and enlarged edition, this anthology incorporates a wide variety of poetry from the different regions of Africa. More examples of traditional poetry are now included, while cultural developments...
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The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
By Stephen GrayGathers poems by writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia.
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Classic Black African Poems
By Willard Ropes TraskClassic Black African Poems
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The Nation's Bounty: The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
By Nontsizi MgqwethoA beautiful study of the incredible life of Nontsizi MgqwethoFor nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu, the first and only female poet...
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It All Begins: Poems from Postliberation South Africa
By Robert BeroldIt All Begins is a collection of poems in English by over fifty South African poets (and some Zimbabweans), with several contemporary translations from /Xam, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Xitsonga and Zulu....
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Zulu Poems
By Mazisi KuneneZulu Poems
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Ten South African Poets
By Adam SchwartzmanBrings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature....