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27 Jul 2008
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Enlaces poetry africa
- Poetry Africa 2006
- Three dozen poets from twelve different countries will participate in the 10th Poetry Africa international poetry festival, 9-14 October in Durban plus 7 October in Jo'burg
- Poetry International
- Large and it seems stable, well curated collection of poets, with poems, interviews, essays etc, by country, bit of Africa there - South Africa: Antjie Krog, Ingrid de Kok, Karen Press, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael Cope, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Tatamkhulu Afrika etc, Zimbabwe: Charles Mungoshi, Chirikure Chirikure, Chris Magadza, Albert Nyathi, Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya, John Eppel, Ndebele & Shona praise poetry etc, Morocco: Abdel-ilah Salhi, Ahmed Barakat, Amina El Bakouri, Ben Younes Majen, Fatiha Morchid, Hassan Najmi, Mohammed Abu-Talib, Touria Majdouline etc.
- Southern Rain
- South African poets, incuding Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya (Ukushona Kwelanga), Michael Cope etc
- word speaks
- Poem by Kojo Baffoe on his blog Imperfect Poetry
- bang bang - more poems
- Nii Ayikwei Parkes
- Ghanaian writer resident in London - two poems here including I like it to rain: Sometimes I like it to rain / Heavy, relentless and loud, / So you burrow into me like pain, / And inhale me slow and free.
- Mshairi
- Blog from “Mshairi”, Kenyan mshairi (poet)
- KiSwahili praise about love
- Nipa loho ya kihindi Give me a writing board of Indian wood
- Butteryfly
- Poem by Chinua Achebe
- Matt's note on this poem
- Eze elina, elina!
- Kemefuna's song from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Matt's note on this poem
- Vultures
- Poem by Chinua Achebe, with revision notes! (BBC Schools)
- Another Africa
- Extract from Another Africa (Lund Humphries, ISBN 0853317291), poems by Chinua Achebe, photographs by Robert Lyons - if your house burns down save this book
- Chris Abani
- Los Angeles, London, Lagos
- People Like Us
- Poem by Chris Abani
- Ambara, The Interpreter
- Dogon Tige, with line by line interpetation
- Lithothokiso (Praise Poems)
- From Rethabile Masilo's blog On Sesotho
- Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac (‘Gaarriye’)
- Interviewed by James Byrne for The Wolf magazine
- Kudu
- Poem by Gaarriye, translated by David Harsent
- Fado Singer for Amalia Roderinguez
- Poem by by Wole Soyinka
- Dedication
- Poem by by Wole Soyinka
- Wole Soyinka in conversation
- First African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature - Soyinka was in conversation at the University of Berkley, transcript with optional video
- Crossing project
- From Devon County Council, including poems from Peter Clarke, Ingrid de Kok, Mike Cope, Abner Nyamende and transcript of a conversation between Tatumkhulu Afrika and three students from Westerford High School
- Poetry Translation Centre
- At SOAS, translations of Amharic (Mengistu Lemma) and Somali ('Gaarriye', Ismaciil Mire) and other stuff. Lot of Arabic translations.
- The beginning of beginning rhythm etc
- Two Bambara praises for the Crowned Crane, in English
- The hunter will go: he will bring meat
- Five Akan praises of hunters, in English
- Matt's note on these Akan praises
- We are meningitis
- Yoruba praise, in English
- Train and other praises
- Praises in English - You are the black centipede, the rusher with a black nose
- African proverbs, sayings and stories
- In original languages and English with explanation, biblical parallels and meaning for everday use
- Francophone African poets
- African poets writing in French - in English translation
- African poets from Eric Aghadiuno
- Chinua Achebe, Joyce Nomafa Sikahane, Okot p'Bitek, Susan Lwanga and eight others - two or three poems from each
- African English Poetry: Some Themes and Features
- Overview of the condition of African post-colonial writing in English
- African educational resources
- Renowned poets Kofi Anyidoho and Tanure Ojaide are featured, plus others
- Recent South African poetry
- Virtual anthology edited by Michael Cope - from Ingrid de Kok to Isabella Motadinyane
- Akan cultural symbols project
- About the Akan ideographic and pictographic system of meaning (example at the top of this page)
- African praise poems - examples, analysis, links
- From Cora Agatucci, Professor of English, Central Oregon Community College
- Inqolobane yomlando yemindeni yama-Afrika
- African family history website with explanation of isithakazelo (praise names) and examples of praises for some of these - mainly in Zulu
- The tether will suffer the wear and the tear
- Poem by Akoli Penoukou - Tether which inhibited us in barter etc
- 5 poems by Reesom Haile
- Eritrean, in English translation by the author and Charles Cantalupo
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