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Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 095708174X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book I Am An African written by Wayne Visser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Okechukwu Okugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781702854443
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Poems From Africa To The World written by Okechukwu Okugo and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from Africa to the World is a collection of fictional/real-life stories and historical events written in poetic form. Many see poetry as a piece of abstract writing that is very hard to connect or understand. But the author by turning real-life events and contemporary themes to poetry seeks to fuse storytelling and poetry together, to make them more enjoyable. This collection is peculiar because they are based on varied subjects ranging from American, Chinese, to Italian themes etc. The author being of African origin, most of the themes of the poems in this book are centered on African peoples and culture. But there are many other themes that talk about unique animals, like the lizard with a horn, and another that talks about one of the most "hidden" places of the world, Cape Melville, in Australia. The poetic-short stories are historic and thrilling, and some inspired by true-life events and experiences. A brief analysis of some of the poems in this collection are: Poem 1, BEAUTIFUL AMERICA, is a short story about what made America a great country. It is transformational and displays boundless insight.Poem 4, GIRAFFE IN CHINA, is a true historical account of how the first Giraffe the Chinese ever saw, came to enter the Chinese Emperor's courtyard - a gift from an African King to the Chinese people.Poem 8, LET'S GO SNOWING IN SOUTH AFRICA, is a fictional short story of a typical snowing day in South Africa. And this purveys the insight that it is not always hot and arid in Africa. Some parts of Africa really experience "severe winter," and have snow, just like Europe, and America, etc. Poem 34, ARO OF AFRICA, is a true historical account of how the British fought the Arochukwu people of the eastern part of Nigeria, in the Anglo-Aro war (1901-1902); and tells how the Aro people used mosquitoes to repel the first British invasion of Aro Kingdom. Poem 61, THE RISING SUN, is a story of how a man, to avoid forceful conscription into the Biafran army, disguised and lived like a woman throughout the nearly 3-year period of the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War. This poetic short story is historically gripping.The author's peculiar style of writing poetry follows his quest to make the understanding of poetic works easier and evoke a much larger audience to start appreciating poetry.
Author : Samuel W. Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Poems from Africa written by Samuel W. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry from Africa.
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Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864863126
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)
Download or read book My African World written by and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection which offers the varied excitements of being in and of Africa. The poets come from different African countries, and young readers will find many of their own experiences caught with wit and warmth.
Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912901
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry written by Gerald Moore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528791029
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Author : Michael K. Twum
Publisher : Afram Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Golden Poems from Africa written by Michael K. Twum and published by Afram Publication. This book was released on 2000 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short poems are written for those who are confused about the condition the world is in and those who are concerned for a more stable world; for all peace-loving people. The poet believes individual problemsare universal, and mostly created by individuals.
Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1908875372
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living written by Wayne Visser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akwasi Aidoo
Publisher : Amalion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 2359261010
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Rhythms of Dignity written by Akwasi Aidoo and published by Amalion Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Akwasi Aidoo’s Rhythms of Dignity is a remarkable, bold first collection. There is a rich diversity in range of form, expressiveness, experience, and passion. Reading through this work is a journey through the undercurrents of experience that reflect on living through the charged realities of the ‘post-colonial’ decades of our modern African not only with an intimate Pan-African awareness of history but also with a poignant sensibility of brotherhood, sisterhood and belonging. Clearly evocative of the age the poet has lived through, these poems have both a sharp clear eye on history, and an abiding tender trust in human relationships.” – Abena P.A. Busia, professor of literature, poet, and Ghanaian ambassador to Brazil. “Akwasi Aidoo weaves together in warm and passionate verses our timeless dreams of freedom, dignity and humanity which shall neither be deferred nor deterred regardless of what they say and what their SAPs (‘sanitize African passion’!) and Davos prescribe. Enjoy the dreams of ‘life and joy’ that is the Rhythms of Dignity. Akwasi is one of Africa’s foremost poets. Akwasi, you make us proud as Africans and as a part of humanity in what you sing and what you pen. May your Rhythms continue to inspire us and light the road to freedom.” – Issa Shivji, Emeritus Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. “In this collection of poems covering Africa, meditation and memory and everything in between, we hear Akwasi Aidoo’s voice mingled with the voices of our ancestors, our past and our future, calling to us to reflect as ‘life streaming hurriedly to us’. Woven within the lyricism of the words, the poems are a political and social commentary on life that evoke Langston Hughes and reminds us of the stories we tell and are told about us. Buy it, read it and be discomfited and comforted in turn.” – Ayisha Osori, author of Love Does Not Win Elections.
Author : Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Before the Palm Could Bloom written by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African Studies. In BEFORE THE PALM COULD BLOOM, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought. And In poems ofvillage life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhoodand adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been foreverchanged. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tonefrom sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit.
Author : Wayne Visser (Words)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320231282
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)
Download or read book African Dream: Inspiring Words and Images from the Luminous Continent written by Wayne Visser (Words) and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book of African inspiration combines the poetic words of renowned South African author Wayne Visser and the images of exhibited British photographer Bob Webzell in a celebration of the people, landscapes and wildlife of the luminous continent. This collection includes the well-known poem, I Am An African.
Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0620588861
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Feast, Famine and Potluck written by Karen Jennings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
Author : David Gretch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532071248
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Save Africa written by David Gretch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa, Your righteous disorders Break my heart ... — Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe’st, Uganda “This Anthology exposes both the sorry-state and unspoken nature of Africa, and Her people, in this recent time. A masterpiece that wakes up an African to have a conscious conscience.” –Udekwe Chikadibia Enugu State, Nigeria As pollution and global warming threaten the balance of life on our planet, the beautiful continent of Africa is in crisis. In the wake of greedy corporations mining valuable natural resources, and through the exchange of rights to such resources, large regions of Africa are under a terrible reign of social injustice, with atrocities including ritualistic rape and murder, artificial war, induced famine and extreme political corruption. In an anthology created to illuminate these atrocities, twenty-one African poets share over one hundred poems that highlight the problems plaguing their homeland. Through poignant verse, these poets offer often shocking insight into a land known for its generosity of spirit and warmth of its people who bravely stand strong in the face of unthinkable tragedy.
Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273850
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.
Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0957081758
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Wishing Leaves written by Wayne Visser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poems of Black Africa written by Wole Soyinka and published by London : Secker and Warburg. This book was released on 1975 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology spanning the history of African verse from early traditional songs and stories to the 1970s. The poems are arranged into 19 sections by theme rather than geographical or historical divisions.
Author : Stephen Abara
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781453542835
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Anthology of African Poetry written by Stephen Abara and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of African-inspired Poetry Released Stephen Abara brings refined works of word art to the attention of the world, sharing the culture and challenges of Africa with the rest of humankind ONTARIO, Canada-- In 2008, Stephen Abara, at that time the president of the Glendon African Network, set out to organize a poetry competition within their university to further espouse understanding and support for the African people, their culture, and the challenges that face them. This book, ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN POETRY, is an outgrowth of that poetry competition, bringing the beauty, emotions, and sentiments of these Africa-inspired poets to a broader audience. In this charming, informative and highly educative book-Anthology of African Poetry-written in English and French by the young intellects at Glendon College, York University, readers will come to realize that one cannot run away from his or her problems. The past can always be found in the present, and has proven to be essential to oral tradition and literature. The poems in this book are both traditional, free verse and modern. They aim to provide readers of African descent and non-Africans with an enhanced understanding of African lifestyle and identity. Opening this book to any page will allow readers to discover a new poem to treasure or delight in all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of Africa's modern and contemporary poetry s vibrancy and abundance and depiction of its people home and abroad through arts and cultures.
