Poetry
AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity...
$20.57
MADIBA
Book by Ifowodo, Ogaga
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; First Printing edition (April 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 90 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592210503
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210503
Item Weight : 5.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
$12.95
LIGHT THE LIGHTS
Light the Lights presents close-ups from a variety of points where three continents - America, Europe, and Africa - collide and join, yet all thirteen poems of Light the Lights connect with Africa. They are poetic re-enactments of evolutionary evidence...
$14.95
AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS: SONGS FOR PATRIOTS
Rich, lyrical poetry that explores themes such as apocalypse, the Black Arts Movement and activism. Toure's language reflects that of the biblical Pslams, which were not meant for dramatic reading but rather to be sung. Product details Publisher : Africa Research...
$11.47
AHMADU FULANI: An African Poetry (COMING SOON)
Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poets father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of...
$14.95
CANTATA FOR JIMMY
"There is quietness in this poetry that reflects deepness past its own use! Or it seems that way. Rashidah lines up the words to make statements of memory, exhilaration, passion, with a casual formality, as if she thought about that....
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ARROWS AND THE BOW (PB)
Rare book
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr; UK ed. edition (December 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 63 pages
ISBN-10 : 156902197X
ISBN-13 : 978-1569021972
Item Weight : 3.46 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
$14.95
MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES
Masksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with...
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MIDDLE PASSAGE (THE): 105 DAYS
In The Middle Passage: 105 Days, Estella Conwill Majozo delves into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors. Many accounts of the Middle Passage have been verbalized and visualized through fiction and non-fiction, such as Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and...
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IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
Africa World Pr. Hardcover.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0865439397
ISBN-13 : 978-0865439399
Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
$59.95
LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF MY BACK
This collection of poetry is a window into the mind and soul of a young poet intent on searching for the "truth in everything." Molefi Asante, Jr. writes in the tradition of African American poets who have laid a foundation...
$12.95
BLANKETS OF SAND: Poems of War and Exile
Blankets of Sand: Poems of War and Exile
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr (June 1, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 59 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569021074
ISBN-13 : 978-1569021071
Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
$14.75
CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional...
$16.95
BEATING A RESTLESS DRUM: THE POETICS OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE DEREK WALCOTT
June Bobb explores the different ways the Anglophone Caribbean's most important poets engage in rewriting history and re-conceiving a visionary world in which it becomes possible to reconnect the fragments of a past destroyed or denied by the Caribbean's confrontation...
$24.95
CARRYING KNOWLEDGE UP A PALM TREE (PB)
Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree: Poetry
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 1998)
Language : English
Paperback : 100 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865435944
ISBN-13 : 978-0865435940
Item Weight : 5.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
$15.09
CARRYING KNOWLEDGE UP A PALM TREE (HB)
This is an anthology of poems by Sudanese-born prolific writer and literary scholar, Taban lo Liyong. In the anthology lo Liyong focuses on wide ranging contemporary issues and subjects, drawing on his wealth of experience both as a seasoned intellectual...
$33.49
HIGHLIFE FOR CALIBAN
This "high life" in the poetry of Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy sets us up for the worlds of Caliban and Tarzan, of St. Augustine and Ophelia; Jane and Shylock; and of His Excellency, the politician. So, too, that of Freetown...
$11.03
HAND ON THE NAVEL
In this, the second volume of his Sierra Leone Trilogy, Lemuel Johnson gives voice to a half-forgotten piece of history, for the most part buried in footnotes and archives: The Royal West African Frontier Force which fought for the allies...
$12.67
Carnival of the Old Coast (African Writers Library)
The concern in Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy has been to return to, and re-frame, the years from the 1500s to the 1960s, and to do so by deploying con/texts in the Sierra Leone Krio heritage - with its remarkably elastic...
$10.11
Lara
"Lara" is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo,...
$15.95