Lament for Kofifi Macu

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928476279
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Lament for Kofifi Macu by : Angifi Dladla

Download or read book Lament for Kofifi Macu written by Angifi Dladla and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angifi Dladla is a poet and playwright who writes in both English and Zulu. He is the author of eight plays and a poetry book in Zulu titled Uhambo. For many years he has been a writing teacher and director of Femba Writing Project, publishing school and prison newspapers, and the anthologies Wa lala, Wa sala and Reaching Out: Voices from Groenpunt Maximum-Security Prison. Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla's first collection of poems in English since The Girl Who Then Feared To Sleep (2001).

Lament for Kofifi Macu

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 : 0994710410
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Lament for Kofifi Macu by : Dladla, Angifi

Download or read book Lament for Kofifi Macu written by Dladla, Angifi and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something the dead know is the head held in broken hands; the drooping mouth-hole, a white speck of eye leaking a tough sort of shame, a burnt rubber which blackens blackness and wires which swaddle the victim like a Pharaoh. Something the dead know: Bones whiter than white shall inherit the earth.

Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779272707
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Book Synopsis Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology by : Rinos Mwanaka

Download or read book Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology written by Rinos Mwanaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology there are 18 French speaking African poets from DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Chad, Senegal, Comoros and more... 14 Portuguese speaking poets from Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique and 63 English speaking African poets from among other countries, South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone. A full gamut of issues is dissected, from love, marriage, relationships, spirituality, politics, culture, tradition, environmentalism, and the interstellar etc. Included are two collaborations: the first deals with marriage, juxtaposing Monogamy vs Polygamy with the 21th century lived experience; the second imagines humanity living as intergalactic beings. The poets were asked to be imaginative (to be fictional poets), to try to create and imagine human agency in this interstellar civilization approaching. There is also featured 5 group interviews with 5 previous contributors to this series. These interviews were interactive and collaborative, with largely the BNAP groups interviewing a poet, critically engaging with their work and discussing the literary and social aspects the poetry addressed. And lastly 4 reviews of African poetry.

The Plague Years

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000631842
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis The Plague Years by : Michael Titlestad

Download or read book The Plague Years written by Michael Titlestad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation. This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of disease and its emotional, cultural, and political consequences. The contributions are from diverse contexts: Africa (from Egypt to South Africa), China, Japan, the US, and Scandinavia. They consider some of the array of contemporary engagements: poems translated from Mandarin about the traumas of the frontline, Chinese calligraphic poetry printed on cartons of PPE, comments on the literary history of representing epidemics and pandemics, political analyses of the post-truth present, and the role of life-writing and gaming in an interrupted world. Given the generative and creative obliquity of many of its parts, this collection shifts how one thinks about the diseased present and the archival pasts on which it draws. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.

The Girl who Then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl who Then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems by : Angifi Dladla

Download or read book The Girl who Then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems written by Angifi Dladla and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angifi Proctor Dladla is a history and language teacher in Katlehong. During the State of Emergency in the 1980s, he was known as Muntu wa Bachaki or Udibi Lwase Sandlwana. He founded the Akudlalwa Communal Theatre in Katlehong, and co-founded Bachaki Theatre Ensemble in Johannesburg. As playwright he has written Mene Tekel, Mistress Magumbo, Dennis the Goat on Trial, Saragorah, and co-written several other plays. As a poet who writes in both English and Zulu, he is often called upon to read and sing his poems at weddings, farewells, funerals, launches, motivational campaigns and graduation ceremonies. For the past few years he has taught writing and theatre to inmates at Boksburg Prison. This book is his first book of poems.

Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner

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Publisher : Modjaji Books
ISBN 13 : 1928215769
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)

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Book Synopsis Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner by : Ndoro, Tariro

Download or read book Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner written by Ndoro, Tariro and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You wear silence sitting on the concrete floor of a library a shroud like speech Language does not belong to you… An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.

Yellow Shade

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928476392
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Yellow Shade by : Dimakatso Sedite

Download or read book Yellow Shade written by Dimakatso Sedite and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Shade evokes the stark textures of township and rural community life: the beauty and passion, the cruelty and humour, the noise, music and stillness. Sedites poems are constructed from unpredictable images a rain-sniffing wind, the knuckles of chairs, a cupboard wailing like a dog left alone in a garage in a gritty language entirely her own.

The Alkalinity of Bottled Water

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Publisher : Botsotso Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0994708165
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis The Alkalinity of Bottled Water by : Xaba, Makhosazana

Download or read book The Alkalinity of Bottled Water written by Xaba, Makhosazana and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makhosazana Xaba, with several collections and anthologies to her name, is at the forefront of a poetry that embraces penetrating socio-political insight with highly emotional responses to the love and pain that our country provides in such abundance.

Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319579401
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature by : Tom Penfold

Download or read book Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature written by Tom Penfold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South Africa’s national literature has attempted to overcome these divisions by discussing material written from a variety of different subject positions together. This book argues that Black Consciousness desired a new South Africa where African and European cultures were valued equally, and writers could represent both as they wished. Thus, a body of literature was created that addressed a range of audiences and imagined the South African nation in different ways. This book explores Black Consciousness in order to demonstrate how South African writers have responded in various ways to the changing history and politics of their country.

The Radio and Other Stories

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Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Radio and Other Stories by : Gil Ndi-Shang

Download or read book The Radio and Other Stories written by Gil Ndi-Shang and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.

KwaNobuhle Overcast

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 : 0994710437
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis KwaNobuhle Overcast by : Billie, Ayanda

Download or read book KwaNobuhle Overcast written by Billie, Ayanda and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KwaNobuhle Overcast is a book of vivid obervations of Billie’s community 20 years into South Africa’s democracy. It describes an inhospitable and sometimes callous KwaNobuhle, its spirit worn away by the harsh toll of survival and political betrayal. The poet remains rooted, borne up by love, family, jazz music, and a stubborn belief in humanity.

Skeptical Erections

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0994710453
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Skeptical Erections by : Dolla Sapeta

Download or read book Skeptical Erections written by Dolla Sapeta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skeptical Erections is a book of startling visual and verbal imagination. In his poems Sapeta describes the deception and self-loathing prevalent in the people he encounters in his world, including (or perhaps especially) himself. Despite their distortions, however, the characters who come alive in these poems are depicted with respect and compassion.

The Bavino Sermons

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 : 1928476309
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bavino Sermons by : Rampolokeng, Lesego

Download or read book The Bavino Sermons written by Rampolokeng, Lesego and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Orlando West, Soweto, in Johannesburg, Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and writing teacher who rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South Africa’s history. Originally published in 1999, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as ‘Lines for Vincent’, ‘Riding the victim train’, ‘To Gil Scott-Heron’, ‘Crab attack’,‘Rap Ranting’ and ‘The Fela Sermon’.

Scrim

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 : 0994710488
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Scrim by : Kotze, Haidee

Download or read book Scrim written by Kotze, Haidee and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haidee Kotze (formerly Haidee Kruger) is the author of Lush: Poems for Four Voices (Protea, 2007) and The Reckless Sleeper (Modjaji, 2014). She is a researcher in linguistics, focusing on language variation and change, and translation.

Walking, Falling

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Publisher : Deep South
ISBN 13 : 0987028286
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking, Falling by : Sole, Kelwyn

Download or read book Walking, Falling written by Sole, Kelwyn and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking, Falling is Kelwyn Sole’s seventh collection of poetry. It extends and deepens themes that emerged in his earlier books: love and human relationships; the exposing of false and clichéd perspectives in our socio-political life; our relationship as South Africans to land and landscape. Rustum Kozain has written about his work: “Whether the theme is the end of a relationship or the murder of immigrants, there is the calm look of analysis, a voice, like a conscience, that threatens to disturb the reader’s complacency, but a voice simultaneously gentle with empathy and sincerity.”

The Yearning

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Publisher : Pan MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781770105522
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis The Yearning by : Mohale Mashigo

Download or read book The Yearning written by Mohale Mashigo and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long does it take for scars to heal? How long does it take for a scarred memory to fester and rise to the surface? For Marubini, the question is whether scars ever heal when you forget they are there to begin with. Marubini is a young woman who has an enviable life in Cape Town, working at a wine farm and spending idyllic days with her friends ... until her past starts spilling into her present. Something dark has been lurking in the shadows of Marubini's life from as far back as she can remember. It's only a matter of time before it reaches out and grabs at her. The Yearning is a memorable exploration of the ripple effects of the past, of personal strength and courage, and of the shadowy intersections of traditional and modern worlds.

Sunrise Poison

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928476287
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Sunrise Poison by : Phillip Zhuwao

Download or read book Sunrise Poison written by Phillip Zhuwao and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunrise Poison, co edited with the poet in 1996, is the first of a planned four-volume collected works of Zhuwao, which include fiction, essays and letters, as well as poetry.