Description
This major collection of verse from Africa is the first to be selected by a practising poet. It is an imaginative, wide-ranging, personal choice. It includes the work of both established and new poets from the four corners of the continent. The majority of poems were originally written in English but there are trans- lations from Swahili, Yoruba, Portuguese and French.
WOLE SOYINKA won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He is the first African winner in the Prize’s history. His reputation was established with such plays as The Lion and the Jewel, The Road and Kongi’s Harvest. The Interpreters, his first novel, is available in the African Writers Series. Among his numerous books are The Man Died (on the Nigerian war), Season of Anomy (a novel), Camwood on the Leaves (a play), and Shuttle in the Crypt (poems). He was a Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge before returning to Nigeria to the University of Ife. He has been Editor of Transition in Accra.
The faultless choice of poems produces an anthology of lasting virtue as a voice of Africa.’ World Literature Today
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