A GRADE 11 Afrikaans First Additional Language speaker at Greytown High School, Abigail van Staden, received honorary mention for two of her three poems that she entered into last year’s Grondwoorde ...
https://doi.org/10.2979/pft.2009.29.1.63 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/pft.2009.29.1.63 Copy URL ABSTRACT Olga Kirsch (1924–1997) occupies a unique ...
Somali poet Warsan Shire has won the UK's Brunel University inaugural prize for African Poetry. The prize is for African poets who have not yet published a full-length poetry collection, and entrants ...
English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...
ZIBUSISO MPOFU has been announced as the tenth Brunel International African Poetry Prize winner. Judges praised the Zimbabwean writer, whose lyrical poems they said ‘open a new itinerary in African ...
Around the time when African colonies began to gain independence from European colonial powers, African literature was born. It is neither ironic nor strange that it was born in Europe. It developed ...
With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...
An ambitious dream to bring African poetry into the international arena is doing more than just decolonising the canon. While on a trip to Cape Town some years ago, the multi-award-winning, ...