(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Introduction Central African literature in English may have arrived late to the Afri…
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) African Poets African Poets Lusophone Poets …
Title of the POEM The title "Tarantula" suggests a focus on the spider, which becomes a metaphor in Musaemur…
Title of the poem The poem "Jikinya" by Musaemura Bonas Zimunya explores themes of resilience and defiance i…
Such is your fate tarantula for emerging red-claw raised between my pillows so early in the morning to ambush my nerv…
While metals roar and flame heads and feet smell of burning men enthuse about commanding Death and a sad wind ululate…
Her kisses left my lips stinging like a shaven chin her bed-grip left my back aching with vice-pain and breathing she…
My heart here rages with sun-presence and the noisy open street to embrace indian soft female limbs whose coppery war…
