With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

It began as an annual festival to host local poets in and around Cape Town but thanks to the power of technology the ancient art of African story-telling is spreading around the world. A poetry ...

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.

New-Generation African Poets (Akashic Books, $29.95) is an ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises. As Kwame Dawes explains in his rich introduction to the eight-part set ...

An ambitious dream to bring African poetry into the international arena is doing more than just decolonising the canon. While on a trip to Cape Town some years ago, the multi-award-winning ...

No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

Old Love Skin, a pan-African poetry collection, finds new voices summoning divinity where they please, and turning history pictures to the wall to fill in the blank negatives with ambivalence ...

One of his poems, “Cousin de l’UE” (Cousin of the European Union), made slam popular almost overnight. In it, he rails against European ignorance of Africa. “They think that our fathers ...

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.