With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa's new poetic talent. Since ...

Guardians and vehicles of African identity, they had to have their “feet in tradition and their mind in modernity” (in the words of Félix Houphouët Boigny, first president of the Ivory Coast). They ...

ZIBUSISO MPOFU has been announced as the tenth Brunel International African Poetry Prize winner. Judges praised the Zimbabwean writer, whose lyrical poems they said ‘open a new itinerary in African ...

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 ...

There's no one thing that makes a poem African-American, says poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, "other than what makes a baby black is his mother or father." But the chance to celebrate a rich ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates National Jazz Appreciation Month and Poetry Month in April with special digital offerings highlighting ...

Guardians and vehicles of African identity, they had to have their "feet in tradition and their mind in modernity" (in the words of Félix Houphouët Boigny, first president of the Ivory Coast). They ...