Reverberations Abroad: Poems by Africans Outside AfricaThere are a total of nine contributors to this Anthology. All are immigrants from Africa to America, except two people; Cyril Obi and Chinwe Azubike, who live and work in Europe. The collection thus is a reflection of sundry temperaments in poetic art. Non of the writers is indeed writing for the first time. They have all had poems and other forms of writings published in some form of media. However, non also has as yet become towering. Their poems are rich in personal and collective experiences and artistic devices. While some are urbane, some still exhume the rural qualities of African life and yet others achieve a blend of both the urban and the rural. In all, the poems are interesting and the annotations make an understanding of the collection a lot easier. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 9 |
Section 4 | 10 |
Section 5 | 16 |
Section 6 | 19 |
Section 7 | 23 |
Section 8 | 28 |
Section 22 | 59 |
Section 23 | 63 |
Section 24 | 70 |
Section 25 | 72 |
Section 26 | 74 |
Section 27 | 75 |
Section 28 | 76 |
Section 29 | 78 |
Section 9 | 33 |
Section 10 | 37 |
Section 11 | 38 |
Section 12 | 40 |
Section 13 | 41 |
Section 14 | 42 |
Section 15 | 43 |
Section 16 | 45 |
Section 17 | 48 |
Section 18 | 50 |
Section 19 | 52 |
Section 20 | 55 |
Section 21 | 57 |
Section 30 | 82 |
Section 31 | 84 |
Section 32 | 86 |
Section 33 | 88 |
Section 34 | 90 |
Section 35 | 96 |
Section 36 | 100 |
Section 37 | 101 |
Section 38 | 102 |
Section 39 | 103 |
Section 40 | 107 |
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