Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' Th

Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book exam

This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from fo