It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...
Renowned poet Nikki Giovanni is back with a latest anthology entitled “100 Best African American poems.” The book features a wide range of poets from Langston Hughes to Tupac. Host Michel Martin ...
Read Part 2: With a range of accents, a unity poem years in the making is brought to life through culturally diverse voices “We are the unbreakable woven thread.” “They want red white and blue, but ...
‘Gbenga Adeoba was born and raised in Akure, Nigeria. In an interview, he said, “About a decade before I was born, a traveling neighbor left his stacks of books with my father but never came back to ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — As she stands before crowds to perform her poems, Rhea Carmon uses her voice to create spaces for conversations on current issues of social change and justice. It’s through ...
One of the earliest forms of African-American narrative poetry began to appear in the 20th century. In the 1960s, Bruce Jackson went about collecting those poems, called "toasts," straight from the ...
If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...
When an English professor at the University of Texas at Arlington assigned his students to look for some of the poems of first published African American poet Jupiter Hammon, he couldn’t possibly know ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. From the African-born poet who wrote "The African Speaks" and "Azania," The ...
A University of Texas at Arlington graduate student recently found a piece of American history that offers more insight on U.S. slavery. Julie McCown, a doctoral student, discovered one of the ...
English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...
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