Dike Okoro is associate professor of English and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris Stowe State University.

Dike Okoro’s Lupenga Mphande: Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist is a groundbreaking critical study of African poetry from a fresh perspective that brings us in conversation with a poet we otherwise would not have understood. Okoro’s expertise in approaching Mphande’s poetry—through both interviews and a comparative study of the poet and the works of his contemporaries—guides the reader to an understanding of one of Africa’s finest poets who deserves more attention than has been given him through the years. This book opens us up to the diverse themes of Mphande’s poetics, not often a subject of conversation in the study of African poetry.

• Chapter 1: Lupenga Mphande’s Poetry: Nature, Environment, Activism & Futurism Chapter 2: Visionary Art in the Poetry of Lupenga MphandeChapter 3: Human Rights and Environment in Modern African Poetry Chapter 4: Symbolism, Mythology, and Sacred Space: A Study of the Poetry of Lupenga MphandeChapter 5: Nature and Environmental Anxieties in the Poetry of Lupenga Mphande Chapter 6: The Depiction of Prison Life in African Literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lupenga Mphande, and OthersChapter 7: Elegies in the Poetry of Lupenga MphandeChapter 8: Nostalgia As A Representative Character in the Poetry of Lupenga Mphande Chapter 9: The African Poet and Political Activism: Lupenga Mphande Chapter 10: The Depiction of Children and Life Lessons in Mphande’s PoetryChapter 11: Nelson Mandela’s LegacyChapter 12: Lupenga Mphande and His Generation: Malawian PoetsChapter 13: Love Poems and Meanings: A Study of Lupenga Mphande’s PoetryChapter 14: Social Justice and Environmental Criticism in the