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

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.

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

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 ...

A new poem from a conscious Africa should rise and echo in every home, school, and narrative about our continent. Several studies illustrate the enormous contradiction of the African continent.

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

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 ...

They not only discovered a signed, first edition copy of their grandfather’s book of poetry, but even found a broadside of his poem, “Sleep On!” But this is just one example of how LSU ...