With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula painfully mourned celebrated Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He said Ngugi's ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.

Krog, an academic, linked to the University of the Western Cape, is no ordinary poet, having won, among others, an FNB Vita Award for best volume of poetry in South Africa at the start of the ...

Camille T. Dungy, the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, calls her book a first of its kind. The nearly 200 poems in the anthology reach back to the mid ...

Director Ava DuVernay included the poem, recited by actors Don Cheadle and David Oyelowo, in a short film she created for the 2016 opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...