The City of Gold’s vibrant cultural scene welcomes the return of the 28th Poetry Africa Festival, a three-day celebration of rhythm, rhyme, and raw emotion. From today until October 5, the festival, ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

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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. Focused on ...

To honor World Poetry Day on March 21, 2018, the Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa team will be hosting a Twitter conversation on the theme of “Africa and the Poetry of News.” In 1999, the United ...

Kevin Young’s star has been burning bright for some time now. His work as a poet and essayist has centered on darkness, Blackness and even “Bunkness.” He is New Yorker magazine’s poetry editor and ...

The 29th edition of Poetry Africa 2025 commenced on Monday, and the opening evening set a resounding tone: poetry matters in times like these. Professor Ari Sitas delivered the keynote address, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation has awarded a $343,750 grant to the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) to fund a research study of African poetry book distribution.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] In her stirring essay “The Difficult Miracle of Black ...

Lagos, the biggest city in Africa, has been under lockdown for more than a month now. When a literary festival was canceled, the organizer began asking writers from across the continent to read ...