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This is a list of African poets. Contemporary Africa has a range of important poets across many different genres and cultures. Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent.
Stanley Onjezani Kenani (born in 1976) is a Malawian writer of poetry and short stories. [1] He has performed at the Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, Poetry Africa in Durban, South Africa, Harare International Festival of the Arts in Harare, Zimbabwe, and at the Struga Poetry Evenings in North Macedonia. [1]
African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres.The field is complex, primarily because of Africa's original linguistic and cultural diversity and partly because of the effects of slavery and colonisation, the believe in religion and social life which resulted in English, Portuguese and French ...
The religious poems included devotions, prophetic stories, and poems honoring saints. The secular poetry could be about celebrations like births and weddings, or accounts of heroic warriors. [ 8 ] As another example, in Mali , oral literature or folktales continue to be broadcast on the radio in the native language Booma.
Ndongolera Mwangupili (b. 1977), poet and short story writer; George Mwase (c.1885–1962), author of a historical account of the 1915 rebellion, published 1967 (2nd ed. 1970). [30] Anthony Nazombe (1955–2004), poet and academic [22] Innocent Masina Nkhonyo (b. 1987), short story writer and poet
The African Writers Series (AWS) is a collection of books written by African novelists, poets and politicians.Published by Heinemann, 359 books appeared in the series between 1962 and 2003.
The contents of both collections of short stories are included in The Unbroken Song (1986), which also contains some of his poems. As part of his Master's thesis, in 1962 he published The African Image , which provides a historical perspective of South African literature. [ 9 ]
Lionel Abrahams (11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004) [1] was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg , where he lived his entire life. [ 2 ] He was born with cerebral palsy and had to use a wheelchair until 11 years of age.