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African Poetry

  • Anyidoho, Kofi, Peter Porter, and Musaemura Zimunya, eds. The Fate of vultures: new poetry of Africa. Oxford: Heinemann International, 1989. PR 9346 F37 1989

     

  • Bassir, Olumbe, ed. An anthology of West African verse. Ibadan, Nigeria: University Press, 1957. PR 9857 B3

     

  • Breman, Paul, ed. You better believe it: Black verse in English from Africa, the West Indies and the United States. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. PS 591 N4B63 1973

     

  • Burness, Don, ed. Echoes of the sunbird: an anthology of contemporary African poetry. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1993. PR 9346 B85 1993

     

  • Chapman, Michael, ed. Soweto poetry. Johannesburg: McGraw-Hill, 1982. PR 9365 .35 B55S69

     

  • -- and Achmat Dangor, eds. Voices from within: black poetry from southern Africa. Johannesburg: AD. Donker, 1982. PR 9365 .35 B55V6

     

  • Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile, ed. When my brothers come home: poems from central and southern Africa. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985. PR 9346 .W48 1985

     

  • Chipasula, Stella and Frank, eds. The Heinemann book of African women's poetry. London: Heinemann, 1995. PL 8013 E5H45 1995

     

  • Couzens, Tim, and Essop Patel, eds. The return of the amasi bird: black South African poetry 1891-1981 Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982. PR 9365 .35 B55R48 1982

     

  • Dhondy, Farrukh, ed. Ranters, ravers and rhymers: poems by black and Asian poets. London: Collins, 1990. 821 R213 OISE

     

  • Gray, Stephen, ed The Penguin book of Southern African verse. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.

     

  • Maja-Pearce, Adewale, ed. The Heinemann book of African poetry in English. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990. PR 9346 H45 1990

     

  • Matthews, James David, ed. Black voices shout! an anthology of poetry. Athlone, Cape, South Africa: BLAC, 1974. PR 9365 .35 N4M3

     

  • Nwoga, Donatus Ibe, ed. West African verse: an anthology. London: Longmans, 1967. PR 9898 W4N9

     

  • Ojaide, Tanure, and Tijan M. Sallah, eds. The new African poetry: an anthology. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1999. PL 8013 .E5N478 1999 Trinity College

     

  • Oliphant, Andries Walter, ed. Essential things: an anthology of new South African poetry. Johannesburg, South Africa: COSAW, 1992. PR 9365 .7 E84 1992

     

  • Reed, John, and Clive Wake, eds. A New book of African verse. London: Heinemann, 1984. Rev. ed. PR 9857 R43 1984

     

  • Schwartzman, Adam, ed. Ten South African poets. Manchester: Carcanet, 1999. PR 9365.25 .T4 1999

     

  • U[niversity]C[ape]T[own] Poetry Web: South African Poetry Sites and South African Poets. 1996-99.

     

  • Wanjala, Chris L., ed. Singing with the night: a collection of East African verse. Kampala : East African Literature Bureau, 1974. PR 9346 S5