For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa’s new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

While on a trip to Cape Town some years ago, the multi-award-winning, Ghanaian-born poet Kwame Dawes and his colleague and friend Chris Abani, a Nigerian-American author, dreamed up a scheme that ...

The 19th century was a vibrant period for poetry in the United States. But few know that African-Americans were an essential part of that. Slaves, former slaves and free African-Americans wrote verses ...

On Thursday, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor spoke to a crowd about the African Poetry Book Fund, its success in recent years and its plans for the future. Kwame Dawes, director and ...

ZIBUSISO MPOFU has been announced as the tenth Brunel International African Poetry Prize winner. Judges praised the Zimbabwean writer, whose lyrical poems they said ‘open a new itinerary in African ...

If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...

There's no one thing that makes a poem African-American, says poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, "other than what makes a baby black is his mother or father." But the chance to celebrate a rich ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Throughout American history, Black people have written poetry reflecting on ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates National Jazz Appreciation Month and Poetry Month in April with special digital offerings highlighting ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has congratulated budding poet, Othuke Umukoro, for emerging winner of Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. Okowa’s felicitation with the Olomoro in ...

This year, PEN Afrikaans is participating in the Right to Write project together with four other PEN centers, at the invitation of PEN International. The aim of this Unesco-funded project is to ...