Kojo Laing
Black Girl, White Girl by Kojo Laing
Ampa I used to walk through the streets with a black girl and a white girl and they both looked exactly alike: high che…
Showing posts from September, 2023
Ghana Poetry
999 Smiles (to Guy Warren) by Atukwei Okai
nine hundred and ninety-nine smiles plus one quarrel ago, our eyes and our hearts were in agreement full that still The…
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Ghana Poetry
Totems by Ama Ata Aidoo
I came upon an owl at the crossroads blinking with confusion greater than mine! Bird of doom. Bird of promise. Fluore…
Ghana Poetry
News by Ayi Kwei Armah
Yesterday there was another attempted coup. People are still running blind targeting the latest scapeleaders in the gam…
Ghana Poetry
Seed Time by Ayi Kwei Armah
To the hot-eyed hustler urging speed over preparation, saying knowledge of self yea probing the universe fine digging…
Kofi Awoonor
Had Death Not Had Me in Tears by Kofi Awoonor
Had death not had me in tears I would have seen the barges on life’s stream sail. I would have heard sorrow songs in …
Kofi Awoonor
The First Circle by Kofi Awoonor
1 the flat end of sorrow here two crows fighting over New Year’s Party leftovers. From my cell, I see a cold hard wor…
Kofi Awoonor
Afro-American Beats III: An American Memory of Africa by Kofi Awoonor
Black as my night, anonymous here my death in Elizabethville was your death. Blood shed in Sharpeville was shed before …
Kofi Awoonor
At the Gates by Kofi Awoonor
I do not know which god sent me, to fall in the river and fall in the fire. These have failed. I move into the gates …
Kofi Awoonor
Easter Dawn by Kofi Awoonor
READ THE ANALYSIS OF THE POEM HERE That man died in Jerusalem And his death demands dawn marchers From year to year t…
Kofi Awoonor
Lovers’ Song by Kofi Awoonor
Call her, call her for me, that girl That girl with the neck like a desert tree Call her that she and I will lie in o…
Kofi Awoonor
The Sea Eats the Land at Home by Kofi Awoonor
At home the sea is in the town, Running in and out of the cooking places, Collecting the firewood from the hearths An…
Kofi Awoonor
Song of War by Kofi Awoonor
I shall sleep in white calico; War has come upon the sons of men And I shall sleep in calico; Let the boys go forward, …
Kwesi Brew
The Search by Kwesi Brew
The past Is but the cinders Of the present; The future The smoke That escaped Into the cloud-bound sky. Be gentle, be k…
Ghana Poetry
Oblivion by Ellis Ayitey Komey
I want to remember the fallen palm With whitening fluid of wine Dripping from its hardened belly In this forest of li…
Ghana Poetry
The Change by Ellis Ayitey Komey
Your infancy now a wall of memory In harmattan the locusts filled the sky Destroying the sweat put into the field And r…
Tijan Sallah
Sahelian Earth by Tijan Sallah
This season is for the baobabs. Baobabs are princes of height. Their swollen feet command A whole empire under earth.…
Tijan Sallah
The Coming Turning by Tijan Sallah
The coming is the turning, Weep not like birds With scattered nestlings. We know it By the silence of our children And …
Lenrie Peters
Isatou Died by Lenrie Peters
Isatou died When she was only five And full of pride Just before she knew How small a loss It brought to such a few. …
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Lenrie Peters
Parachute Men by Lenrie Peters
Parachute Men say The first jump Takes the breath away Feet in the air disturbs Till you get used to it. Solid ground…
Lenrie Peters
One Long Jump by Lenrie Peters
One long jump From the early days When the face was like a globe Round, revolving, limitless Sharp incisive like a pr…
Lenrie Peters
We Have Come Home by Lenrie Peters
We have come home From the bloodless war With sunken hearts Our boots full of pride – From the true massacre of the s…
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Lenrie Peters
Song by Lenrie Peters
Clawed green-eyed Feline of night Palsy-breasted Selling old boot On wet pavement In hour-glass baskets Coconut belli…
Lenrie Peters
Homecoming by Lenrie Peters
The present reigned supreme Like the shallow floods over the gutters Over the raw paths where we had been, The house wi…
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Mukula Kadima-Nzuji
Love in the Plural by Mukula Kadima-Nzuji
neither this sobbing ocean in the moon of your swelling voice nor the milky vapour on the window of my waking nor thi…
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Mukula Kadima-Nzuji
Incantations of the Sea: Moando Coast by Mukula Kadima-Nzuji
Shocks of dizziness my waves, my fears of the ocean on the salty strand of my desire. Shocks of carnal dreams my heaps …
Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) Poetry
A Fistful of News by Antoine-Roger Bolamba
The hills hunch their backs and leap above the marshes that wash about the calabash of the Great Soul Rumours of trea…
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Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) Poetry
Portrait by Antoine-Roger Bolamba
I have my gri-gri gri-gri gri-gri my calm bounding awake clings to the wavy limbs of the Congo never a stormy passage f…
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Côte d’Ivoire poetry
My Head is Immense by Charles Nokan
My head is immense I have a toad’s eyes A horn stands on the nape of my neck But a magical music surges from me. What t…
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
Poems from Herbe féconde (1973) by Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
1 We are men of the new world a tree prompts us to harmony A tree whose fruit is pulpy It isn’t the tree of good or e…
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Joseph Miezan Bognini
Earth and Sky by Joseph Miezan Bognini
Earth and sky are infinities Where our cries cannot venture I have fixed my head between two stones Seeking the Shelt…
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Joseph Miezan Bognini
My Days Overgrown by Joseph Miezan Bognini
My days overgrown with coffee blossoms, My childhood has lost its meaning. The hatred one has eaten Can never be dest…
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Emmanuel Dongala
Fantasy under the Moon (Blues for a muted trumpet) by Emmanuel Dongala
I climbed towards you on a ray of moonlight that filtered through a hole in my straw-thatched house When I had reached …
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
Letter to Edouard Maunick by Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
I knew it from the moment I heard of your coming The Congo couldn’t leave you intact He who bears the bites of a craz…
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
End of Flight by Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
I At last man has seen the death of the free bird Over the sands mingled with sea-wrack The nude-necked predator show…