African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres....

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...

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...

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...

Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival held annually in Durban, South Africa. More than twenty poets, predominantly from South Africa and elsewhere...

African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...

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...

Performance poetry in Africa dates to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, while elegiac and panegyric court poetry were developed...

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...

Brunel International African Poetry Prize is a literary award aimed at the "development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa." The prize is sponsored...