"Africa Poems features the awesome continent of Africa, mankind’s cradle; as well ashistories about the Serengeti and Sahara; some of Africa’s colorful leaders and explorers; the tragic genocides in Rwanda and Sudan; and the disasters in Zaire and Somalia."
"Asante's book, Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a profound statement of the Afrocentric perspective."...C. Tsehloane Keto, Ph.D., Director of...
A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom“Poet m. mick...
What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy's racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing...
Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin is one of the earliest comprehensive studies and anthologies devoted to African American poetry. Published in 1923, this groundbreaking work introduced readers to a vibrant body of literary art that was reshaping...
In a century where civilization rapidly takes over our time, people in search of what the future might be and rather ignoring the past, \223Africa Speaks\224 is a collection of poems that travels back to the past in a time...
For almost fifty years Welsh writer Dave Lewis has been fascinated with Africa; the land, the people and its wildlife. Throughout his writing there have always been references to the great continent and so here together in one volume is a small ‘selected...
"Africa My Africa"it's a spiritual and gratifying journey to enlighten black consciousness (culture, identity and reclaiming our aboriginal) in a lionizing attitude through poetry. The author wrote most of her poems in three types of poetry such as Haiku, Couplet...