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1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages, 346 pages). |
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Africans |
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Twenty-first century Twentieth century |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Malthouse African poetry
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Malthouse African poetry series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contributors; Contents; Benin; Forgetful; Burundi; The Dream; Cameroon; Going to Nairobi; Awakening; The Day We Planted Father; Assoreh Love; Monikim Dancer; Lady of the Morning; Between Airports; A Free Ka is the Evidence of Things not Seen; Dreamers ; Rites of Passage; Vengeance; Courage Tita: tribute to an imaginary hero ; Sea of Land; Congo; The Flight of Writers; The Writer's Death; Insomnia; Egypt; Nile Procession; Between Neighbour & Nation; From Sceits to Sohag; Eritrea; Whose Daughter?; Old Sayings. |
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To a PenExposure; Go Crazy Over Me; Remembering Sahel; Gambia; Tribute to the Body-Carpenter; The African Penguins; Next to God, the Doctor; Earth Respect; Ghana; Extract from ""What Ola Says""; News from Harlem; New name; Bayonets; Nostalgia; Illicit Passion; Exiles; Mawu of the Waters; Suspended Interview; Soul to Song; Extract from ""Voices of Guns""; Introit; King Tut in America; Things my elders taught me; Guinea; One of the Lucky Few; Ivory Coast; (Untitled-Editor); Kenya; The Girl Died of Democracy; Power! Power for Blood?; Good-bye; Lesotho; The cessation of our tale; Mothapo; Liberia. |
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The River is RisingComing Home: for Besie-Nyesuah; When Monrovia Rises; We Departed Homelands and We Came; Libya; White birds in a black space; Ladders; Malawi; My father's story; The sawyers; Straying far away; My father and I; Patched heart; The rain storm; The Kiss; Lament for a teller of tales lost in the season of AIDS; A song in spring; Haven't we forgotten something?; Cry of the Innocents; Requiem for Mbuya; What is Important?; Morocco; Mice of the Wheel of Loneliness; Everyday's Subsistence; Aphorisms; This ego that I have long forgotten; Poet; Of dream and joy; Namibia. |
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Keep a Blank PageThree Clouds Above; Lagos Pavement ; Niger; The Message; Inmortality; Nigeria; Histories; Extract from ""Sacrament""; To The Janjaweed; Remembering; Narratives of Gold; Exile Island; I knew you were pregnant; A tribute to my mother; Mother: A Reflection; While I was far away in another country; Epistle; Africa; To Ken Saro-Wiwa, after reading ""Africa Kills Her Sun""; Waiting; Iroko in the wind; Flower from the tomb; Song of Lost Fruits; Tales of their Passing; Song of a maiden; A song for Okachamara Ossie Enekwe; Homeland; For Onoriode; Freetown; History Lesson. |
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God punish you, Lord LugardLike a blood parable; Lagos; The giving of pears; The visit; The tailor and his strings; The silenced; Sequence (of desire); Association; The story of the masses; Peace forgotten; Back again; Black tale; Oil game; Down by the Niger; Marsh boy; The sea has two mouths; Stranger; A deep sense of feelling; The market women; Kill or be killed; The beauty of a woman; Unity of Existence; Dinner; Rage of a river; Silhouette; Lost poem; Countryside blues; Christmas day; Iya'Beji; A tryst; To my 400 Level Class of 2007, A wish; A love letter from connecticut; Rwanda ; Mwogo. |
| Summary |
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 representativ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African poetry (English) -- 21st century.
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African poetry (English) |
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21st century |
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African poetry (English) -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Africa -- Poetry.
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Africa. |
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Poetry.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Okoro, Dike.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: We have crossed many rivers. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press, 2012 9788244327 (OCoLC)809615834 |
| ISBN |
9789788422877 (electronic book) |
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978842287X (electronic book) |
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9788244327 |
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9789788244325 |
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