Download or read book Serurubele Poetries written by Kano Shoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serurubele Poetries is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a young (South) African female. The poems range from prose poetry to one-liner musings. With the life cycle of a butterfly as its basis, the collection asks the reader to go through the metamorphosis. The poems seek to playfully, seriously, honestly, fictitiously live and breathe beyond just the writers imagination because that is where many of them were formed and remain. The poems never stop seeking to reflect the intersections between particularities and universalisms, multiple voices and realities, as well as the nuances embedded in any given experience.
Download or read book Serurubele written by Shoro, Katleho Kano and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serurubele means ‘butterfly’ in Sesotho. It is the art of metamorphosis, a mind in flight and the beat of poetic expression. I offer you my perspectives, my many mothers’ teachings. I present both hopelessness and moments that excite, the taxi mgosi that makes me write. Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice, her unassuming sense of humour, and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity, on the writing, reading and performance of poetry, exploring the language that structures it, the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics, articulating ideas about masculinity, sexuality, blackness, colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind, Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it, to taste the language as it flows from your tongue, to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Swaziland and London, and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.
Download or read book The Only Magic We Know written by Marike Beyers and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
Download or read book The Postcolonial Animal written by Evan Mwangi and published by African Perspectives. This book was released on 2019 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature
Download or read book Bodies of Knowledge written by Efua Prah and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, ‘ Bodies of Knowledge’ considers living in and coping with chronic illness, spirit-possession, and death. The growth in Critical Health Humanities and the Arts globally, suggests the desire for blended efforts to draw in a wider breadth of knowledge that cuts across the divided worlds of critical social science and the arts. This book, set in an African context, offers myriad possibilities for cross-disciplinary synergies as learning sites. It is a critical contribution to the field of children and childhood studies.
Download or read book Beyond the Delivery Room written by Khadija Heeger and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.
Download or read book The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems written by Marilyn Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...In "The Cachoeira tales" longing to take her family on a journey to "some place sanctified by the Negro soul," the poet finds herself in Brazil's Bahia, along with a theater director, a jazz musician, a retired commercial pilot, an activist, a university student, and two mysterious African American women whom they meet along the way. In rhymed couplets, each pilgrim tells a story, and the result is a rollicking, sensual exploration of spirit and community, with a nod to Chaucer and to traditional Trickster tales." -- dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Agringada Like a gringa like a foreigner written by Ndoro, Tariro and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You wear silence sitting on the concrete floor of a library a shroud like speech Language does not belong to you… An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
Download or read book Blame Me on History written by Willam 'Bloke' Modisane and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Modisane's book, read today by all South Africans, will expose our raw pasts, private and public in their nature, which are still present in many forms as unacknowledged antecedents ... Engrossed and fascinated, I turned the pages of Blame Me on History as fast as I could.' – Njabulo S Ndebele Feeling an exile in the country of his birth, the talented journalist and leading black intellectual Bloke Modisane left South Africa in 1959. It was shortly after the apartheid government had bulldozed Sophiatown, the township of his childhood. His biting indictment of apartheid, Blame Me on History, was published in 1963 – and banned shortly afterwards. Modisane offers a harrowing account of the degradation and oppression faced daily by black South Africans. His penetrating observations and insightful commentary paint a vivid picture of what it meant to be black in apartheid South Africa. At the same time, his evocative writing transports the reader back to a time when Sophiatown still teemed with life. This 60th-anniversary edition of Modisane's autobiography serves as an example of passionate resistance to the scourge of racial discrimination in our country, and is a reminder not to forget our recent past.
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.
Download or read book Coming of Age written by Gift Sakirai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ‘The Curse’ we see the existential dilemmas that the characters have to deal with in their day to day life on hard planet earth. These recurring dilemmas become the leitmotiv of the whole collection. The poet uses literary figures and philosophical terms that connect with past literature like Sisyphus, Nirvana, quixotic, The Pied Piper, Spartans, Jim Crow etc. in his poems to show us the situations his characters are going through, likening them to these past literary figures and their stories. In ‘Coming of Age’, the poem that informs this collection and titular to the collection, he talks of the ghetto being, his journey as he tried to break the cycle of poverty and vault himself out of the ghetto and the political situation that weighs heavily on this being. How this being comes of age in the scourge of this time. This is an important and well assembled beautiful collection of poetry of the Zimbabwean struggle.
Download or read book Blood of the Sun written by Salgado Maranhão and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhao integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual--butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time--resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in forms both fixed and free, Maranhao's language suggests a jazz-like musicality that rings true in Alexis Levitin's masterful translations. For readers who enjoy the complexity of Charles Simic, or the stylistically innovative syntax of Cesar Vallejo, Maranhao's "Blood of the Sun "is a sensually provocative amalgamation of both.
Download or read book Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology Volume 1 written by Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology: Volume 1 contains 89 poems and translations in Shona, English, Tonga, and Chibarwe. 32 poets and translators tackle issues such as poetry, writing in general, art, place, identity, tradition, struggle, collective understanding, individual, human rights and love.
Download or read book Poetry in Sesotho written by David Ambrose and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from Africa and Beyond written by F. Ayuninjam and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection Ayuninjam attempts to capture his sentiments on many plains. He also takes the liberty to capture the sentiments of other persons in his life and in society as a whole as well as the sentiments of other creatures that are part of the chain of life. As a result, much of what follows is occasional poetry, as he has more often than not responded or reacted to his sensations while also being a surrogate for those who could (or would) not express theirs. Having lived abroad for as long as he lived in Cameroon, his perspective has, accordingly, been coloured, though not necessarily transmuted. The poems transcend space and time.
Download or read book Life Through Poetry written by Nzinga and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I have a compiled a series of poems which reach beyond poetry. My poetry touches on subjects I feel have been put in the back burner by society. Through poetry I have undertaken the task of advocating for the weakened, beaten, forgotten, and many times silenced. LIFE THROUGH POETRY’s mission is to bring to light these very complex and pushed aside issues which affect us all one way or another, by bringing them to the forefront of the public’s consciousness, I’m hoping to stimulate each individual whose hands this book finds itself in to do something more than just feel sympathy for those directly affected by them. ____________________________________________________________ THIS BOOK IS A SURROGATE VOICE TO THOSE VICTIMS AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLANCE, INCEST, CHILD SLAVERY, CHILD SOLDIERS,THE SEXUALLY CONFUSED, THE GENDERLY DISCREMINATED AGAINST, AIDS VICTIMS AND THE FATALLY ILL. (5% OF ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT SAIS VICTIMS) MY CURRENT PROJECT IS OPENING A MENTAL HEALTH REHABILITATION CENTER FOR CHILDREN WHO'VE BEEN VICTIMIZED DURING THE 27 YEAR LONG CIVIL WAR WHICH AFFECTED MY HOME COUNTRY ANGOLA. THOUGH I AM HAITIAN-DOMICAN / ANGOLAN-CONGOLESE.... AND ACKNOWLEDGE AND EMBRACE EACH AND EVERY PART OFMY HERITAGE.. ANGOLA IS WHERE I CALL HOME FOR IT IS THE COUNTRY WHICH HASFOREVER STOLEN MY HEART) SHOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT PLEASE CONTACT ME AT [email protected]. PLEASE BE SURE TO LEAVE ME YOUR CONTACT INFO AS WELL AS THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU'D LKE TO GET INVOLVED OR THINK YOU CAN PARTICIPATE. TO PURCHASE LIFE THROUGH POETRY PLEASE CHECK OUTTHE FOLLOWING LINKS: WWW.XILIBRIS.COM/BOOKSTORE (888-795-4274 EXT.7876) OR ON WWW.AMAZON.COM YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT AT WWW.BARNESANDNOBLES.COM. FOR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS YOU CAN CONTACT US AT [email protected] For more information, please visit www.tagged.com/lifethrougpoetry
Download or read book Agringada Like a gringa like a foreigner written by Tariro Ndoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
