African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres....
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back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River...
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The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from...
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Shijing (Classic of Poetry) In Africa, poetry has a history dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, and panegyric and elegiac...
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Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival held annually in Durban, South Africa. More than twenty poets, predominantly from South Africa and elsewhere...
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African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...
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Spoken word (redirect from Spoken word poetry)
Performance poetry in Africa dates to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, while elegiac and panegyric court poetry were developed...
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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and...
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Brunel International African Poetry Prize is a literary award aimed at the "development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa." The prize is sponsored...
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Keorapetse Kgositsile (category All Wikipedia articles written in South African English)
between African poetry and African-American poetry in the United States. Kgositsile was born in a mostly white section of Johannesburg, and grew up in a small...
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