A South African poet’s multilingual performance at the G20 Social Summit touched viewers as she blended several local ...

From slavery to the civil rights movement and beyond, the contributions and achievements of African-American women will be saluted Thursday evening in a special poetic tribute, “Honoring HERstory.” ...

Elizabeth Alexander, renown American poet, was only the fourth person who was asked to compose and recite a poem at a presidential inauguration. In 2009, she wrote “Praise Song of the Day” based on ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Badilisha Poetry X-Change is both an online audio archive and Pan-African poetry ...

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 ...

Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of ...

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

No. 3, Voice and Power: The Culture of Language in North-East Africa. Essays in Honour of B. W. Andrzejewski (1996), pp. 269-274 (6 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

Making symmetrical knowledge possible : recent trends in the field of southern African oral performance studies / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Obscurity and exegesis in African oral praise poetry / Karin Barber ...

April is National Poetry Month, which celebrates, among other things, the power of poetry. E. Ethelbert Miller reads and discusses several of his poems with Liane Hansen. Miller is director of the ...

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