African Poetry
Themes and Major Issues in The Fate of Vultures & Other Poems by Tanure Ojaide
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Introduction Tanure Ojaide's collection of poems, The Fate of Vultures & Ot…
African Poetry
Malawi poetry
Nightmare by Frank Chipasula
Darkness chained me to my tattered reed mat; The hand of tyranny sprinkled The soot of ignorance in my eyes, and sleep …
Zambia Poetry
I screw my brother’s wife by Albert Chimedza
I screw my brother’s wife I am the slithering snake in the grass I am the yukky stuff that clogs the veins of the gov…
Uganda poetry
If It Is True by Richard Ntiru
If it is true that the world talks too much then let’s all keep quiet and hear the eloquence of silence If it is true…
South Africa poetry
Civilization Aha by Sipho Sepamla
i thought of eden the first time i ate a fig i thought of a whiteman …
South Africa poetry
On Judgement Day by Sipho Sepamla
black people are born singers black people are born runners black people are peace-loving these myths make of us naïv…
South Africa poetry
Thought on June 26 by Mazisi Kunene
Was I wrong when I thought All shall be avenged? Was I wrong when I thought The rope of iron holding the neck of youn…
South Africa poetry
Elegy by Mazisi Kunene
O Mzingeli son of the illustrious clans You whose beauty spreads across the Tukela estuary Your memory haunts like tw…
South Africa poetry
The Echoes by Mazisi Kunene
Over the vast summer hills I shall commission the maternal sun To fetch you with her long tilted rays, The slow heave…
South Africa poetry
Poems About Prison by Lemuel Johnson
Cold the clammy cement sucks our naked feet a rheumy yellow bulb lights a damp grey wall the stubbled grass wet with …
South Africa poetry
Nightsong: City by Dennis Brutus
Sleep well, my love, sleep well: the harbour lights glaze over restless docks, police cars cockroach through the tunn…
Sierra Leone poetry
The Defiance of Figures in Wood by lemuel Johnson
Nana, what about love? Love?… Love?… Love is not safe. Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘Changes’ But barter we did: it remains still t…
Sierra Leone poetry
Hagar, or, the Insufficiency of Metaphor by Lemuel Johnson
such grief might make mountains stop reverse the waters where they flow Anna Akhmatova, ‘Dedication’ I go, because yo…
Sierra Leone
Magic by Lemuel Johnson
Othello: Come, Desdemona. I have but an hour… The quick straddle will do. for now. nakedness itself is not the point;…
Syl Cheney-Coker
The Brotherhood of Man by Syl Cheney-CokeSylr
The locomotive breaks its run you descend to adjust your gaze your century, looking through your narrow point back in…
Syl Cheney-Coker
The Tin Gods by Syl Cheney-Coker
Watching the tombs tonight the desert raises its shadow the desert sees the caravan along its own arm: playing this g…
Syl Cheney-Coker
The Philosopher by The Philosopher
Who lived here when the stones were green verdigris of age when the reptilians marched like men into the night before…
Syl Cheney-Coker
The Road to Exile Thinking of Vallejo by Syl Cheney-Coker
Like others I get drunk in my blood hiccuping and await the souls of my brothers perennially on the song composed by …
Syl Cheney-Coker
Letter to a Tormented Playwright by Syl Cheney-Coker
Amadu I live alone inside four walls of books some I have read others will grow cobwebs or maybe like some old friend…
Syl Cheney-Coker
Poem for a Lost Lover by Syl Cheney-Coker
Eyes of heavenly essence, O breasts of the purity of breasts Russian sapphire of the blue of eyes O wine that mellows…