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Book Revelations  Africa in Poetry

Download or read book Revelations Africa in Poetry written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a penetrating, refreshing, diverse and impeccable collection of insightful poetry on the realities of everyday life in Africa. The collection reflects on a gamut of issues, desirable and undesirable alike. Themes covered range from dissipation, corruption, war, love, bad governance, greediness, anxiety, religion, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, natural environment to culture. To lovers of poetry, culture and wisdom, this is a must-read!

Book Gabriel Okara

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  • Author : Gabriel Okara
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0803288662
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Gabriel Okara written by Gabriel Okara and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.

Book Impressions of Africa

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  • Author : Raymond Roussel
  • Publisher : Alma Books
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 0714546534
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Impressions of Africa written by Raymond Roussel and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter.

Book The New African Poetry

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  • Author : Tanure Ojaide
  • Publisher : Three Continents
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780894108914
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The New African Poetry written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 2000 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.

Book Revelation

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0857861018
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Book Save Africa

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  • Author : David Gretch
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2019-03-25
  • ISBN : 1532071248
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Save Africa written by David Gretch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa, Your righteous disorders Break my heart ... — Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe’st, Uganda “This Anthology exposes both the sorry-state and unspoken nature of Africa, and Her people, in this recent time. A masterpiece that wakes up an African to have a conscious conscience.” –Udekwe Chikadibia Enugu State, Nigeria As pollution and global warming threaten the balance of life on our planet, the beautiful continent of Africa is in crisis. In the wake of greedy corporations mining valuable natural resources, and through the exchange of rights to such resources, large regions of Africa are under a terrible reign of social injustice, with atrocities including ritualistic rape and murder, artificial war, induced famine and extreme political corruption. In an anthology created to illuminate these atrocities, twenty-one African poets share over one hundred poems that highlight the problems plaguing their homeland. Through poignant verse, these poets offer often shocking insight into a land known for its generosity of spirit and warmth of its people who bravely stand strong in the face of unthinkable tragedy.

Book Poetry and Revelation

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  • Author : Kevin Hart
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-04-20
  • ISBN : 1472598326
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Poetry and Revelation written by Kevin Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience" are given to us by phenomenology. Poetry and Revelation is the first study of religious poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of “religious poems”, some medieval, some modern; some written in English, others written in European languages; some from America, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of revelation itself.

Book Poems from East Africa

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  • Author : David Cook
  • Publisher : East African Publishers
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789966460196
  • Pages : 212 pages

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.

Book Keeping the Sun Secret

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  • Author : Marial Awendit
  • Publisher : African Books Collective
  • Release : 2022-03-11
  • ISBN : 1779272677
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Keeping the Sun Secret written by Marial Awendit and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this collection are deep musings and enigmatic thoughts of the poet, gained over many years spent seeking meaningful interaction and acceptance with the world around him. The author, a widely published poet from South Sudan seeks to be understood through his reactions to war, love, tyranny, injustice, faith and various circumstances.

Book African Poetry

Download or read book African Poetry written by Ulli Beier and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book We Have Crossed Many Rivers

Download or read book We Have Crossed Many Rivers written by Dike Okoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time, they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and generational relations representative of the African continent. Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank Chipasula are inlcluded and in all there are contributions from 68 poets.

Book New Poets of West Africa

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.

Book Revival

Download or read book Revival written by Dick Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revelations

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  • Author : Elaine Pagels
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-03-06
  • ISBN : 110157707X
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Revelations written by Elaine Pagels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.

Book A Book of African Verse

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  • Author : John Reed
  • Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book A Book of African Verse written by John Reed and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Bones

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  • Author : Kwame Dawes
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-15
  • ISBN : 0810134632
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book City of Bones written by Kwame Dawes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.

Book Africa Arise

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  • Author : Frequency Rhymes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Africa Arise written by Frequency Rhymes and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This skillfully crafted poetic masterpiece titled, "Africa Arise" is a collage of African inspiration poems designed to celebrate the beauty of African diversity in terms of its people, luminous landscapes and wildlife. In this catalogue of emotionally provocative yet intellectually stimulating book, the author unpacks uncommon syllables of how the African continent has stood the test of time and arisen with great resilience, endurance and forbearance, in the face of raging storms and tidal waves and yet remained unfulstered.In esoteric language, the author has skillfully decoded the coded syllables on African identity, diversity and heritage, which for ages have remained an inexplicable subject. This book brims with provocative insights that provide a unique and ground-breaking entry into the wealth of untold tales and unexplored mysteries of the African land. It unveils the treasure and beauty of the African land and sends a clarion call and consciousness to all Africans to treasure and cherish it. Mother Africa is uniquely endowed by nature and beautified with the natural landscape scenery, heritage and diversity yet it is on the verge of losing the mark of its identity. Therefore, this treatise is a wake-up call for all Africans to awaken from a deep slumber and revive the pride of Africanism and embrace the core values of love, solidarity, and human dignity. Moreover, the poems hails, commend and celebrate the female heroes of the African heritage (Imbokodo), for their demonstration of resilience in the face of adversity, and siege and rising against the unjust and gruesome societal tides that has boxed them under the shadows of men.This publication is jam-packed with poetic insights that will take you through a journey out of the convictions and ordinary perceptions of Africanism to plunge into the greater depths of understanding the essence of African identity. The intellectually challenging, deeply provoking and incredibly inspiring, hard-to-get poetic rhythms and rhymes encapsulated in this book are set to revolutionise the lens through which you view the African continent and its people. The depth and density of poetic syllables it contains requires the reader to make a conscientious effort to digest its morsels, hence it is designed for those who are set on expeditions and adventures to explore the African content.Drawing from a plethora of his wealth of skills in poetic rhymes, Frequency Rhymes has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that rant and raves about the great panorama of African heritage from the primeval cataclysms that explored the continent to the economic upheavals facing much of the continent today. In incredible poetic language, the author tells the extraordinary story of how Africa overcame ferocious obstacles of war, hunger, and genocides to emerge as one of the greatest on the face of the earth. To stay relevant to current poetic trends, his writing style is delivered in an idiosyncratic and eccentric style, a very modern mix of meme-culture, quirky slang and unapologetic youth coolness. For this reason, the author is a revolutionary new voice in African poetry, emerging with authority, to claim his space and audience.The wealth and riches with which Africa is endowed in terms of the abundance of natural resources such as gold, silver and diamonds and the diversity of cultures makes Africa such a thrilling society with a unique identity. For this reason, the author describes Africa as the land of dreamers, adventurers, and explorers. In this vast and vivid panorama of historical wealth, the author discusses the fortunes of Africa which are naturally available to the African people. With compelling narrative, he expounds on how Africa can transform the jangling discords of the continent into a beautiful symphony of unity and oasis of freedom.