Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology

by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Editor), Daniel Da Purificaïïo (Editor)

Overview

Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789956764891
Publisher:	Langaa RPCID
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Series:	Best New African Poets , #2016
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe.

Daniel da Purificação, was born in 1983 in some place called Angola.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Place, Heritage and Identity

Part 2: Language, Writing, Poetry and Art

Part 3: Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Inspirational, and Individual

Part 4: Illness, Suffering and Healing

Part 5: Memories, Nature and Environmentalism

Part 6: Colonialism, Corruption, Free Speech, Misgovernance, War and Strife

Part 7: Tribute, Dedication and Women Rights

Part 8: Postmodernism, Family, Home and love

Part 9: Translations from other African Languages

Part 10: Portuguese poems

Part 11: French Poems

Part 12: Collaborations from BNAP 2015 Poets

Part 13: Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology Poetics and Reviews