Rhythms of Creation: An Anthology of Okike PoetryDonatus Ibe Nwoga An anthology of poems from Okike, An African Journal of New Writing, inspired and edited by Chinua Achebe. The journal published writers throughout the flourishing period of creativity in the seventies, and was historically a major movement in African literature. The work contains 190 poems from 87 poets. The poets are from Nigeria and other African countries. Some are established writers - Dennis Brutus, Kofi Akoonor and Wole Soyinka; and the volume includes a number of powerful poems by the father of modern African literature himself. Others are lesser known as poets but still of considerable literary stature, for example, Micere Githae- Mugo, a Kenyan, who co-authored a play with Ngugi, and several South Africans, writing from inside, or in exile from, the apartheid regime. The anthology is organised thematically under the headings: 'the words we use'; 'of god and nature'; 'of men and women'; 'of hopes and doubts'; 'of past and present'; 'of troubled times'; 'of heroes and cowards'; and 'a call to freedom'. |
Contents
Nerudas Books Chinweizu 4 36 | 4 |
The Vagabond Negro Bessa Victor 6 39 | 6 |
Papers are Manure Israel Okoye 179 | 7 |
Poetics an extract Onwuchekwa Jemie 2 19 | 13 |
Can You Not See the Elephant Gods? Poem for Uganda BakulumpagiLwanga 12 910 | 14 |
Moon Dance Uche Okeke 1 27 | 16 |
A Poor Mans Prayer Nnamdi Olebara Trans Chinweizu 17 412 | 17 |
For My Daughter Taiwo Okusanya 9 29 22 | 75 |
Pine Tree in Spring For Leon Damas Chinua | 166 |
Agostinho Neto Chinua Achebe 187 | 282 |
Africa Remembers at Last Nnamdi Olebara | 288 |
Daughter of Azania Abroad For Mamiki | 303 |
The Hill Called Freedom For Angola Ossie | 309 |
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