Download or read book West African Poetry written by Robert Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.

Download or read book A Selection of African Poetry and West African Verse written by Keye Abiona and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West African Verse and a Selection of African Poetry written by E.F. Nwosu and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West African Verse written by Donatus Ibe Nwoga and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1967 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selection of African Poetry written by Kojo E. Senanu and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selection of African Poetry written by Kojo E. Senanu and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and enlarged edition, this anthology incorporates a wide variety of poetry from the different regions of Africa. More examples of traditional poetry are now included, while cultural developments are reflected in the contemporary material.

Download or read book New Poets of West Africa written by Tijan M. Sallah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Gambia's leading young poets and writers is the editor of this collection of new voices of poetry from West Africa. The countries covered are Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. A brief biographical note is included on each poet, and a selection of their poems. The poets were selected as the most representative of the new and variegated scene of contemporary West African poetic creativity and life.

Download or read book West African Verse written by Donatus Ibe Nwoga and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1967 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Four Modern West African Poets written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by New York : NOK Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected African and Non African Poems with Notes written by Agnes Ada-Nwaneri Okibedi and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notes Paraphrases Questions and Answers on West African Verse and a Selection of African Poetry for School Certificate G C E and JAMB Candidates written by Dan Yorgbe and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Book of African Verse written by John Reed and published by London : Ibadan [etc.] Heinemann. This book was released on 1964 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from East Africa written by David Cook and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.

Download or read book I Am An African written by Wayne Visser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".

Download or read book Mother is Gold written by Adrian Roscoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did West African literature in English begin? What influences affected its birth and development? How much does it imitate European models? How is traditional African culture influencing modern writing? What kind of experiments are being tried? These are some of the questions, relevant to African writing throughout the continent, which this critical study discusses by examining the most significant work in verse, prose, drama, children's literature, journalism and political writing in West Africa. The author examines the writing of major figures such as Soyinka, Achebe, Okara, Clark, Tutuola and Ekwensi as well as that of authors whose work is not as widely known.

Download or read book The Heritage of African Poetry written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Book of African Verse written by John O. Reed and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: