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Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher : Africana Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Zulu Poems written by Mazisi Kunene and published by Africana Pub.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966468697
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Emperor Shaka the Great written by Mazisi Kunene and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dike Okoro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000827801
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mazisi Kunene written by Dike Okoro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetry, how Kunene’s poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.
Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0967951143
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene written by Okoro, Dike and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Zulu language and translating his corpus into English. Ntongela Masilela, a close friend to Kunene and scholar who has written extensively on Kunene oeuvre, shares views that center primarily on Kunene's importance in African literature, and his role and place in South African literary and cultural revolution.
Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anthem of the Decades written by Mazisi Kunene and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0967951194
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Two Zulu Poets: Mazisi Kunene and BW Vilakazi written by Okoro, Dike and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Two Zulu Poets, Dike Okoro brings to our attention the sparkling wealth of African poetry in indigenous languages. Modern African poets and scholars owe so much to the pioneering efforts of these two South African poets. Dr. Okoro has surely, in this bilingual edition of two Zulu poets, unearthed invaluable gems of poetry. Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “Mazisi Kunene is simply one of Africa greatest poets.” N'gugi wa Thiong'o, University of California Irvine, CA, USA “There is a direct line of continuity between Benedict Wallet Vilakazi and Mazisi Kunene concerning the fundamental issue that African literature should be written in the African languages by New African intellectuals”, The Historical Figures of the New African Movement". Ntongela Masilela, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies
Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ancestors & the Sacred Mountain written by Mazisi Kunene and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609729
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.
Author : Abu Shardow Abarry
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394031
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book African Intellectual Heritage written by Abu Shardow Abarry and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. Asante and Abarry marshal together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora. Within this remarkably wide-ranging volume are such sources as prayers and praise songs from ancient Kemet and Ethiopia along with African American spirituals; political commentary from C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Joseph Nyerere; stirring calls for social justice from David Walker, Abdias Nacimento, Franzo Fanon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring newly translated texts and ocuments published for the first time, the volume also includes an African chronology, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. With this landmark book, Asante and Abarry offer a major contribution to the ongoing debates on defining the African canon. Author note:Molefi Kete Asanteis Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, includingThe Afrocentric Idea(Temple) andThe Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.Abu S. Abarryis Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.
Author : Mazisi Kunene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Echoes from the Mountain written by Mazisi Kunene and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes from the Mountain. New and Selected Poems by Mazisi Kunene
Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0967951127
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)
Download or read book In the Company of the Muse written by Okoro, Dike and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Dike Okoro, Sam Walton Fellow and finalist for the 1994 Iliad Poetry Award, teaches advanced reading and writing poetry and literature courses at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA. He received his PhD in English (with research specialization in African Diaspora literatures) from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, an M.A. in African American literature and an M.F.A. in poetry, both from Chicago State University. He is the editor and author of six books, including Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories, Echoes from the Mountain: New and Selected Poems by Mazisi Kunene A Long Dream: Poems by Okogbule Wonodi. His poems, essays, short stories, chapters and articles have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Author : Chigozie Obioma
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316338362
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Fishermen written by Chigozie Obioma and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.
Author : Vasu Reddy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928246404
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Fabric of Dissent written by Vasu Reddy and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isidore Okpewho
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207104
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book African Oral Literature written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." —Reviews in Anthropology " . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral literature right now . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Truly a tour de force of individual scholarship . . . " —World Literature Today " . . . excellent . . . " —African Affairs " . . . a thorough synthesis of the main issues of oral literature criticism, as well as a grounding in experienced fieldwork, a wide-ranging theoretical base, and a clarity of argument rare among academics." —Multicultural Review "This is a breathtakingly ambitious project . . . " —Harold Scheub " . . . a definitive accounting of the evidence of living oral traditions in Africa today. Professor Okpewho's authority as an expert in this important new field is unrivaled." —Gregory Nagy "Isidore Okpewho's African Oral Literature is a marvelous piece of scholarship and wide-ranging research. It presents the most comprehensive survey of the field of oral literature in Africa." —Emmanuel Obiechina " . . . a tour de force of scholarship in which Okpewho casts his net across the African continent, searching for its verbal forms through voluminous recent writings and presents African oral literature in a new voice, proclaiming the literariness of African folklore." —Dan Ben-Amos "This is an outstanding book by a scholar whose work has already influenced how African literature should be conceived. . . . Professor Okpewho is a scholar with a special talent to nurture scholarship in others. After this work, African literature will never be the same." —Mazisi Kunene Isidore Okpewho, for many years Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, is one of the handful of African scholars who has facilitated the growth of African oral literature to its status today as a literary enterprise concerned with the artistic foundations of human culture. This comprehensive critical work firmly establishes oral literature as a landmark of high artistic achievement and situates it within the broader framework of contemporary African culture.
Author : Christopher Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139455329
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (553 download)
Download or read book A History of South African Literature written by Christopher Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.
Author : Dike Okoro
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 978842287X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book We Have Crossed Many Rivers written by Dike Okoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time, they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and generational relations representative of the African continent. Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank Chipasula are inlcluded and in all there are contributions from 68 poets.
Author : K. L. Goodwin
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding African Poetry written by K. L. Goodwin and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
