There's no one thing that makes a poem African-American, says poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, "other than what makes a baby black is his mother or father." But the chance to celebrate a rich ...

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An ambitious dream to bring African poetry into the international arena is doing more than just decolonising the canon. While on a trip to Cape Town some years ago, the multi-award-winning, ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) South African poetry, rich with history , has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is ...

Kevin Young’s star has been burning bright for some time now. His work as a poet and essayist has centered on darkness, Blackness and even “Bunkness.” He is New Yorker magazine’s poetry editor and ...

Review: "Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century"; edited by Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis; NewSouth Books, 352 pages George Moses Horton wasn’t supposed ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] In her stirring essay “The Difficult Miracle of Black ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa's new poetic talent. Since ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...