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Mine Mine Mine
Häftad, 2023
221 kr
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Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in …
Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn
Av Tanella Boni
Häftad, 2018
237 kr
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Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa’s Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new …
There Where It's So Bright in Me
Av Tanella Boni
Häftad, 2022
237 kr
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There Where It’s So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference-race, religion, gender, nationality-that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella …
Promise of Hope
New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
Av Kofi Awoonor, Kofi Anyidoho
Häftad, 2014
253 kr
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Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana's most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited …
Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony
Av Ladan Osman
Häftad, 2015
203 kr
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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman's speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent …
Gabriel Okara
Collected Poems
Av Gabriel Okara, Brenda Marie Osbey
Häftad, 2016
253 kr
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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early …
When the Wanderers Come Home
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain …
After the Ceremonies
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2017
253 kr
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Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged …
Breaking the Silence
Anthology of Liberian Poetry
Häftad, 2023
286 kr
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Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle PaperBreaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers …
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Collected Poems, 1998–2020
Av Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Kwame Dawes m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
328 kr
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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the first major poet out of Africa's oldest republic of Liberia since the nation's founding and remains one of the most important poets from Africa. Spanning two decades of work, the poems in this collection tell stories of Wesley's homeland that would have otherwise been …
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Collected Poems, 1969–2018
Av Keorapetse Kgositsile, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
318 kr
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Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling …
Modern Sudanese Poetry
An Anthology
Av Adil Babikir
Häftad, 2019
253 kr
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Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the …
When We Only Have the Earth
Häftad, 2025
237 kr
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In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where “the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is melting in you, in me.” This translation by …
Gathering of Bastards
Häftad, 2023
253 kr
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Winner of the 2023 Julie Suk AwardWinner of the 2024 Nebraska Book AwardFinalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book AwardFinalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize for PoetryLike I knew, standingon …
Madman at Kilifi
Häftad, 2014
188 kr
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Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind …
Fuchsia
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colors, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants of …
Logotherapy
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal and the …
In a Language That You Know
Av Len Verwey
Häftad, 2017
203 kr
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South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the challenges posed by place and history, shared identities, deep embeddedness in the continent, and …
January Children
Häftad, 2017
203 kr
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Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry"A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were …
Beating the Graves
Häftad, 2017
203 kr
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The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled …
Think of Lampedusa
Av Josué Guébo
Häftad, 2017
204 kr
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A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most …
Stray
Häftad, 2018
237 kr
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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo’s poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only captures the essence of identity but also …
Careless Seamstress
Häftad, 2019
237 kr
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This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always …
Your Body Is War
Häftad, 2019
237 kr
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Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw’s poems explore what the woman’s body has to do to survive and persevere in the …
'mamaseko
Häftad, 2020
237 kr
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Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood-to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks …
Sacrament of Bodies
Häftad, 2020
237 kr
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2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a …
Exodus
Häftad, 2020
237 kr
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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic opportunities. Using the sea as a source of language and metaphor, Adeoba explores themes of memory, transition, …
Rinehart Frames
Häftad, 2021
253 kr
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2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies FinalistWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African PoetryThe poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the …
Your Crib, My Qibla
Häftad, 2021
237 kr
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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry WinnerJulie Suk Award WinnerNigeria Prize for Literature shortlistYour Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, …
In the Net
Häftad, 2022
237 kr
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In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, …
