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Author: James Weldon Johnson Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775411672 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 244
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The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important figure. Johnson was active in almost every aspect of American civil life and became one of the first African-American professors at New York University. He is best remembered for his writing, which questions, celebrates and commemorates his experience as an African-American.
Author: Gabriel Okara Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803288662 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 197
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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 experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.
Author: Cheryl A. Wall Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199335559 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 150
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This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike.
Author: Tanure Ojaide Publisher: Three Continents ISBN: 9780894108914 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 233
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This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.
Author: Lauri Ramey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317029178 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 342
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In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.
Author: Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah Publisher: Africa Research and Publications ISBN: 9781592212323 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 83
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Ahmaduu Fulani is a book of performance poetry celebrating the memory of the poet's father. The anthology also addresses issues of national and international significance, human and envirnmental rights, and speaks out against injustice no matter who the oppressed or the oppressors are. With three languages (English, Yoruba and Hausa) sharing the page readers need to perform the poetry to realise their full meanings and literary aesthetics. The invocation of the street poetry tradition of Nigerian street beggars and oral singers is fully realised in this book.
Author: Wayne Visser Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 095708174X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 158
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This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".
Author: Lauri Ramey
Author: Lauri Ramey
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Author: Gabriel Okara
Author: Cheryl A. Wall
Author: Tanure Ojaide
Author: Isidore Okpewho
Author: Lauri Ramey
Author: Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah
Author: Wayne Visser
Author: Oscar Ronald Dathorne