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The Palm of Time
Abubakar Othman
Paperback - $50.95
Many of these sixty-seven poems deal with coming to terms with the long period of military rule and kleptocracy in Nigeria, and the effects on its citizens' pysches. A kind of absurd theatre is the poet's metaphor for these memories, and forms the st ...
A Beautiful God to Love (to Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Charles de Foucauld, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Luther King)
Issoufou Ouattara
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Selected Poems
Femi Oyebode
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Oyebode is a Nigerian poet and doctor, living in the UK - factors evident in this selection of his poems, many of which deal with issues of home and exlile, and the poet's place. His root society is his Yoruba homeland. He lives and writes in the for ...
The Defence of Lawino
Okot PBitek
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A new translation of the late Okot p'Bitek's classic epic poem 'Wer pa Lawino', first published in Acholi in 1969, and recently listed in Africa's 100 Best Books. Lawino is a female voice, taking issue with her husband whom she witnesses imitating a ...
Two Songs : Song of Prisoner & Song of Malaya
Okot PBitek
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Poet, philosopher and artist, these poems from the distinguished Ugandan writer won the 1972 Kenyatta Prize for Literature. Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. He traverses the whole spectrum of her political sicknes ...
Otros Seres : Other Beings
Queli Pariente
Paperback - $26.95
Otros Seres es una antologia bilingue de poesia de escritores de las tres Americas.
Other Beings is a bilingual anthology of poetry by writers from the three Americas.
A South African Heart
Nadine Potgieter
Paperback - $15.95
A South African Heart is a bilingual collection of modern poetry in English and Afrikaans, which is diverse in expression and true to the soul. What makes it so interesting to read is that it's open to personal interpretation. One poem could have var ...
Lighting Shadow
Taiwo Toyin Rotimi
Paperback - $33.95
A collection of African poetry and cultural comment by Nigerian born Taiwo Toyin Rotimi. Lighting Shadow is to mark the bi-centenary abolition of Slavery 1807 - 2007.