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 ...

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 Badilisha Poetry X-Change, a website launched in 2012 by the Africa Centre, ...

Slapering Hol Press’s Seven New Generation African Poets, a box set of eight chapbooks edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani as part of the Poetry Foundations Poets in the World Series, seeks to ...

Entry is opened to all Africans poets who love to write, no age, nationality or location restriction. All African citizens are encouraged to send in entries to be considered. See below for all the ...

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 ...

The bonds created by poetry are limitless, according to award-winning poet Prof. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and scholar of African American literature and culture Prof. Dagmawi Woubshet. During an “In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...

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 ...