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  • af Ladan Osman
    148,95 kr.

    This collection of poems examines the varied ways women navigate gender roles, while examining praise for success within roles where imagination about female ability is limited. The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.

  • af Tanella Boni
    157,95 kr.

    These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.

  • af Tares Oburumu
    192,95 kr.

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of Syma, the neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria he came from, mixing music, religion, and political critique to evoke pasts and futures.

  • af Len Verwey
    159,95 kr.

    Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.

  • af Romeo Oriogun
    178,95 kr.

    The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external.

  • af Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
    199,95 kr.

    Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence.

  • af Uhuru Portia Phalafala
    157,95 kr.

    Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, this epic poem is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.

  • af Mahmoudan Hawad
    157,95 kr.

    In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s.

  • - Collected Poems, 1969-2018
    af Keorapetse Kgositsile
    231,95 kr.

    This a comprehensive collection of the new and collected works of South Africa's second poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.

  • af Saddiq Dzukogi
    157,95 kr.

    Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.

  • af Cheswayo Mphanza
    180,95 kr.

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it.

  • af ‘Gbenga Adeoba
    157,95 kr.

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic opportunities. ┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á Using the sea as a source of language and metaphor, Adeoba explores themes of memory, transition, and the intersections between the historic and the imagined. With great tenderness and power his poetry of empathy searches for meaning in sharply constructed images, creating scenes of making and unmaking while he investigates experiences of exile and displacement across time and place. ┬á

  • af Romeo Oriogun
    157,95 kr.

    In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.

  • af Thabile Makue
    157,95 kr.

    Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities.

  • - An Anthology
     
    178,95 kr.

    Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context.

  • af Mahtem Shiferraw
    159,95 kr.

    Contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.

  • af Tjawangwa Dema
    159,95 kr.

    This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political.

  • af Tanella Boni
    157,95 kr.

    Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa's Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium.

  • af Bernard Farai Matambo
    157,95 kr.

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo's poems in Stray favour a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth.

  • af Josue Guebo
    146,95 kr.

    A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josue Guebo's poems combine elements of history and mythology.Guebo considers the Mediterranean not only as a literal space but also as a space of expectation, anxiety, hope, and anguish for migrants. He meditates on the long history of narratives and bodies trafficked across the Mediterranean Sea. What did it--and what does it--connect and separate? Whose sea is it? Ultimately he is searching for what motivates a person to become part of what he calls a "seasonal suicide epidemic."This translation of Guebo's Songe a Lampedusa, winner of the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry, is a searing work from a major African poet.

  • af Len Verwey
    146,95 kr.

    South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the challenges posed by place and history, shared identities, deep embeddedness in the continent, and the legacies of violence and exclusion, as well as beauty.

  • af Tsitsi Ella Jaji
    146,95 kr.

    The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor.

  • - New and Selected Poems
    af Ama Ata Aidoo
    180,95 kr.

    Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues.

  • af Safia Elhillo
    146,95 kr.

    In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1." What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one's own land.

  • af Mukoma Wa Ngugi
    146,95 kr.

    Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl's penchant for her parents' keys to a warrior's hunt for words, Wa Ngugi's poems move back and forth between the personal and the political.

  • af Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
    146,95 kr.

    Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction. Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a diaspora African and the devastation of a country and continent struggling to recover. When the Wanderers Come Home is a woman’s story about being an exile, a survivor, an outsider in her own country and is her cry for the Africa that is being lost in wars across the continent, creating more wanderers and world citizens.Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona. She has four other books of poetry, including Where the Road Turns and Becoming Ebony, part of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry.

  • - Collected Poems
    af Gabriel Okara
    178,95 kr.

  • af Mahtem Shiferraw
    148,95 kr.

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colours, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants of trauma, war, and diaspora.

  • - New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
    af Kofi Awoonor
    180,95 kr.

    Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana's most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor's most arresting work spanning almost fifty years.

  • af Clifton Gachagua
    162,95 kr.

    Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all.

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