Poems of Black AfricaWole Soyinka This collection includes the work of both established and new poets from the four corners of Africa. The majority of poems were originally written in English but there are translations from Swahili, Yoruba, Portugese and French. |
Contents
CHINUA ACHEBE | iii |
Contents | 13 |
London Impressions I II Arthur Nortje | 28 |
A Man of the People | 31 |
If Jared Angira | 37 |
Ancestral Faces Kwesi Brew | 43 |
The Prophecy Richard Ntiru | 50 |
The Fulani Creation Story Traditional Fulani | 57 |
Abidjan Ismael Hurreh | 143 |
JARED ANGIRA | 148 |
The Bastard B S Tibenderana | 149 |
To the Childless Kittobbe | 155 |
Dedication Wole Soyinka | 161 |
Trapped in a Puddle Amin Kassam | 167 |
Freight Train Tom Simpson | 174 |
Masked Jared Angira | 181 |
Scene Arthur Nortje | 63 |
The black glassmaker Rabéarivelo | 69 |
Chief the Honourable | 70 |
Expelled Jared Angira | 79 |
SellOut David Diop | 85 |
HomeComing Son Tsegaye GabreMedhin | 91 |
Letter to a Poet L S Senghor | 97 |
Cold Dennis Brutus | 103 |
No Coffin No Grave Jared Angira | 112 |
Minister | 118 |
Never Ask Me Why Odia Ofeimun | 124 |
His Worshipful | 130 |
The Analogy Bahadur Tejani | 131 |
Sunset in Biafra | 140 |
Song of Malaya 1 Karibu Okot pBitek | 142 |
Autopsy I II Arthur Nortje | 187 |
A common hate enriched our love and Dennis Brutus | 195 |
The Poem of João Noémia de Sousa | 197 |
Maji Maji Yusuf O Kassam | 203 |
The Master of the House Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali | 209 |
As best he can each dies alone Tchicaya U Tamsi | 215 |
Fourth Poem Costa Andrade | 223 |
Hoisting the Flag Agostinho Neto | 229 |
FemiAura Jared Angira | 237 |
Daybreak I II III Rabéarivelo | 243 |
Phlora Jared Angira | 251 |
KOFI AWOONOR | 277 |
This Earth My Brother | 359 |
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