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A raw and resplendent book, rich in the rigour of reflection. George's poetry is a challenge to the borders of selfhood and the limits of self- expression. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read poetry imagined out of what is close to home, as well as in lands and cultures and traditions very very far." Kiran Bhat (Indian-American novelist, short- story writer, literary critic, translator and poet), author of We of the Forsaken Worl...

Writing Woman Anthology: Poetry and Visual Art, Volume 3 is the most representative of the three books in this anthology as it has a balance of Asian and African writers and artists. Each poet and artist tackled what it means to be a woman in Africa and Asia. The anthology has 20 Chinese poets writing in Chinese language and accompanying translations into English, 1 poet from Inner Mongolia, 2 from Turkey, 4 from India and the diasporas, and 2...

The stars are in alignment. Her dramatists and scholars have spoken on the tapestry of these pages as a testament to the powers that be and the knowledge of the ancients. The language and the expertise involved will speak to your heart in praise of Africa. These word artists, these scholars and dramatists bring their life experience to the book, a noble kind of variety, an energy, their particular aura, the juxtaposition of the effervescent fl...

Land is ubiquitous but exceptionally precious, no-frills, and one-off for all beings past, present, and future though not all appropriately appreciated for its nonpareil significance and sacredness. Nevertheless, currently, African corrupt, credulous, and closed-minded rulers are blindly and bald-facedly dishing land out in this toxic leasing by enacting another scramble for Africa under a putrid façade of investment, a crime against humanity ...

Weaving stories has been primarily women's domain since time immemorial. When women write, they speak from their hearts, emotion flows and carries the readers with the powerful currents. Women directly bear the brunt of family life fall outs, be it oppressive family and social rules and confinement or physical abuse when they don't comply and submit. Even if they remain silent, submissive, their very existence makes them get intimidated. This ...

Kum ke ingaba ithetha ukuthini yonke le ntshwaqane? Njengoko imibhalo nge mibhalo endiyikhuphe ngesi Ngesi ibhentsisile, kuye kwakhona ukulahleka okuthile apha kulo mntu undim. Ngenxa yezi zathu ezi thile endizibaluleyo kuma qonga nga maqonga, zizathu endingenalo ixesha loku ngena kuzo ngoku, ndiye ndafuna ukubunikela umva ubuntu nobu Afrika bam. Le mibongo ke, njenge ziyaca, iye yandi rhintyela ngoku mandla. Ndine mincili egqithileyo ke ukube...

This collection has 60 poems that tackle spirituality from different perspectives as they also tackle day- to-day activities of the protagonists, from love, truth and lies, what is right or wrong, politics, death, existence, growing up stories, memories, gender and sexuality, what beauty is, etc. And in all these poems there is the search for our beginning (where we came from) to find the path to here (where we are) and what this here represen...

Chipo lived in the village with her parents. She was a brilliant girl at school and her dream was to become a great farmer when she grows up. This surprised her parents, but they agreed to support their daughter's ambition until she becomes famous in their village.

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. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gr...

This book is testimony to the Ambazonia Project, which must come to fruition. Because its architects mean business and have a good liberation strategy and a sensible roadmap for realizing it. The availability of money is obviously a great drawback. But it is here delineated that finances alone cannot be enough to bring freedom to a people. Sapient, dedicated, farsighted, and patriotic leadership is topmost. Ambazonia is blessed to have these r...

Broken maps, made from stories of displacement and refugee camps, stories of depression, of people learning to live with sound of gunshots today find their space within the broken maps, all living with broken lives. This to me is the scene the poet deliberately calls broken maps and one can go beyond boundaries to meet people whose lives mingle in what they strongly reject from their once brothers, war. Here the poet uses Poetry as a device to...

What first suggested itself to me was, Jackbooted. I was almost accepting the aptness of this when I remembered the often used metaphor of Dr Tunji Braithwait's cockroaches and rats. And why not! The collected stories are all about the roaches and rats. The alliterative phrase Restless Ruin alighted on my mind from Professor Femi Osofisan's play titled The Restless Run of the Locusts. Borrowing and combining the distilled thoughts of these int...

Cognitive dissonance is a historical amnesia caused by the falsification of history, epistemicides and cultural genocides, manifests in forms of inferiority complex, self-hate, and self-alienation of the black people and the sense of superiority as natural to the white race. It manifests in dichotomy, affects both white race and black people, it can be called coloniality of being. Therefore this situation led to racism, exploitations, politica...

Step into the evocative world of Formless, a captivating collection of poetry by Raïs Neza Boneza. Through a tapestry of words, Boneza weaves a profound exploration of life's intricate beauty and complexity. From the rhythmic pulse of 'Tunefulness' to the reflective depths of 'Verses of the Soul, each poem in this collection invites the reader on a journey of introspection and discovery. Formless transcends boundaries, blending vivid imagery a...

The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God, and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God an...

After successfully rebelling against human oppressors at Manor Farm, hoping to create a society where all Farm animals are equal, the animals revel in a short lived utopia. Ultimately, the new ruling class of pigs become dictatorial and even more oppressive than human beings betraying the revolution fought under the banner of ushering in Animalism. Panuma yakutamfya umusambashi Jones uwaleshititikisha pebala, inama shalitampa ukuitungulula i...

From 2015 to 2023 we have been able to issue out, yearly, an anthology of Africa poets, through 9 years of publishing this beautiful anthology of the best contemporary African poets and in the process we have published and archived over 1000 African poets. And this year without fail we offer you Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology which comprises several dozens of African poets from the Portuguese, English and French speaking African countri...

The Epistle of Udume follows Udume's journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in some recognizable Nigerian spaces, Udume is crucial to the novel where the other characters' experience stems from his connection to them. Udume's positioning as the narrator in the novel makes him central to its explorations of the themes that are connected to the happenings in Nigeria. Once again through this novel, Solomon Awuzie masterly weds his artistic visi...

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...

FRONTIERS: WILD, SEMI-WILD, HUMAN.... A photographic Novel, is a book of photographs I have taken or worked on over a period of 6 years from 2012 to 2017. I love the concept of writing a novel through photography and that's why I called this book of photographs a photographic novel, for there is a strong narrative dimension in these photographs that creates visual literature. And this narrative link, for a good part, points to the content in t...