ANTHOLOGIE DES
MEILLEURES “NOUVEAUX” POÈTES AFRICAINS 2015
BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY
ANTOLOGIA DOS MELHORES “NOVOS” POETAS AFRICANOS 2015
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Poetry Progeria
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Edited by Tendai R Mwanaka
Daniel da Purifacação
Table
of Contents/Table des Matières/Tabela de Conteúdos
1. Lekpele M. Nyamalon:
Dig the Graves
I will never sell you again my brother
Inside Timbuktu
2. Archie Swanson: Non
Suleiman
In Memoriam
3. Idara Idemeko: Black
water
Filing cabinets and
smoked peppers
Asymptote
4. Brok’N Sylance: Poem
1: A promise
Poem 2
Poem 3: I am African
5. Uche Ogbuji: March
as a Lion
Rheotype
Millennium Parent
Prayer
6. Ohioleh Osadebey: I
have learned to boast like my father
The thing I would love
to tell my father
7. Mike Kantey: A
vision of Peace
Relegation
Night flight to Nairobi
8. Faysal Chafaki: A
Faithful Servant O’ Him
Upon the Forgotten
Rock
No Wise Man
9. Shittu Fowora:
Nouadhibou to Nouakchott
Tell
Renascence
10. Aaron Brown: N’Djamena Morning
Song of the Workers
Twin
11. Handson Chikowore: Cry African Girl
When Persecution is
a Priority
Beauty of Botswana
12. Hailey Gaunt: Thamalakane River, Botswana
Water Fight
The Beginning
13. Christina Coates: Mapungwape
House of Kolmanskop
Heritage Sites
14. Chuma Mmeka: A
People’s Culture
My Ekpe Dance
Once a Christmas Day
15. Akinlade Oluwaseyifunmi: Jericho
That
Kid
Odd
Love
16. Osita Kabba: Ancestors Arrows
Poetry Progeria
The Realm of the Man with Broken
Wings
17. Zarina Macha: Electra and Intrama
Angel Face
I Cannot Sleep
18. Freddy Macha: Nothing is Clearer Now
Rumbling Fires
Time is the Enemy
19. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka: Body
To the Textmaker
who Leaves Nothing to Chance
The Guilty Trip
20. Afua Wilcox: Garri and Tea
21. Kariuki wa Nyamu: The Extraordinary Love Poem
Palaver
Love’s art and Love-craft
22. Daniel Chukwuemeka: On the Mercy of the Knots
Your Love
In my Country
23. Troydon Wainwright: Be there
Ideals
It Only Took a
Moment
24. Togara Muzanenhamo: The Wheel Brace
Portrait of a Water
Trough
Zvita
25. John Eppel: Coming Home to Tea
Giving
The Coming of the Rains
26. Erica Haldane: Change
The Futility of Malevolence
27. Sheril Guzha: Why
Poverty
Love
28. Chaun Ballard: Spoiler Alert: Ebola
Chrysaora achlyos
Dream Catcher
29. Abbyan Ali: Night Skies
30. Fiona Mohammed Khan: The Leaf Would not Fall
31. John Attah Ojonugwa: I Have Been Watching You
32. Badradeen Mohammed: Your eyes
Arguments
33. Achieng’ Em: Balancing on Oddity
Shadows Around Me
The Life you Thought
you Could Understand
34. Hosea Tokwe: Eyes Bound to Heaven
My Diaspora
The Sun Shines Yet
35. Tete Burugu: Don’t Know How I Made It
Cunning Linguist
Eff What I Want
36. Taijhet Nyobi: Bold
Fade
White Lover
37. deziree a. brown: when innocence dies
what jackie’s
body told
what the earth gave
me
38. Sónia Sousa Robalo: Mulher- menina
Forma de ser
Nós
39. Sábio Louco: Tenho Guardado uns Poemas
Promessas, Proibições &
N'zaia
A Cair aos Pedaços mas...
não, não
40. Katya Dos Santos: DESUMANidade
Buscas
Sensação
41. Dilen Alsungas
Pandiera José: Incrivel
Paisagem
Epitafio
42. Magno Domingos:
Quando foi tomar banho
No Calumbo baza mas não sabe de kaquilá
O primeiro
filho dela é o Zé.
43. Sihle Ntuli: KwaMashu f Section
Bus Stop
Martyrs
The Stranger
44. Nadeem Din-Gabisi: Sight See on
Celestial See-Saws
Know This
Foreign
Tongue
45. Tulile Siguca: *no title*
Humans Have the
Ability to Endure the Circumstance
Born to Nothing
46. Alexander Khamala Opicho: Let Me
Have my Coffin
Kingly Testicles
47. Maakomele R. Manaka: Leano on my Mind
The Sky
and The City
At the
Foot of Uhuru
48. Micheal Tinarwo: Running from
Homelands
A Ruthless Man
49. Wafula P’Khisa: A Thousand Sunsets
An Empire Crumble
Chicken’s Funeral
50. Jackson Tendayi Matimba: Ten Billy
Goats
Axes Vs Taxes
Romans of Africa
51. Vincent Ajise: Sahara Blues X
We III
Confessions
52. Godswill Chigbu: Trinity
The New Market
New Slaves
53. C.J Chenjerai Mhondera: Is This the Way
At King
Agrippa’s Banquet
The Ruins
of Dambudzo
54. Chisom Akafor: Chains
Mister Jailer
The Bridge over
Johannam
55. Edward Dzonze: Xenophobia (SA 2008)
Narratives of a Boko Haram
Corruption
56. Charles Orji Nonso: Gold diggers
Paragon
57. Dami Ajayi: On Chibok
Die a Little
On
Airports
58. Anthony Akoto Osei: Foreign Tongue
Colour Blind
Melanin
Active
59. Rana Al-Hassanein: Our Autumn
Revolution
Portrait
Escape
60. Redscar McOdindo
K’Oyuga: Titration of the Kenyan Cocktail
There should be Places
Dear Mogadishu, School is not Haram
61. Ravi Naicker: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Riding Off into the Sunset
Wellington Rings a Bell
62. Judith Mian: Listen and Hear
A Gathering
Land to Feed the Soul
63. Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe: The Passage
My
Heart Packed a Suitcase
64. Tariro Ndoro: Harare
Cross the Border by
Night
Mandisema
65. Abigail George: Moonwalking with
Science and Athol Fugard
Kevin Carter’s
Ghost
The Arrangement of
Light
66. Goddo Faggotte: Memory
Grief
Lonely Progress
67. Yolanda Kumalo: Lie To Me
How Will I Tell
Him
68. Lucas Zulu: Inseparable
In my Silence
I Write Myself
69. Delia Marie Watterson: I Wanna Fuck
Repeat
Poison
70. Osinachi: Death’s Fountain
My Mother’s Breasts
My Nephew’s Anus
71. Kelechi Ezeigwe: Waiting for a Lover
72. Josaya Muianga: Stratosphere
Connected
Child of Night
Something for
the Mind
73. Orimoloye Moyosore:
Home is where the heart is
The things
we lose by losing
Solar Eclipse
74. Joseph Nzognin: Water
La Poule
75. Soberano Canhanga: Mano Decimo
No Meu Imaginario
De Baixo da Ponte
76. Milton C. Andre: Seguinda Feira
Ser Ou Nao Ser
Chama-me Peregrino
77. Daniel da
Purifacação: CAZENGANDO UMA ANGO-RECORDACAO
NÓS
Mais e mais
78. Angelo Reis: Nzira Flor de Africa
79. Claudia Cassoma: Eu Vou Voltar
Amor a Retalho
Panties and
Pots
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a
multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Contracted books
coming out in 2015 include, Zimbabwe: The
Urgency of Now (creative nonfiction), Finding a Way Home (stories novel),
Revolution (poems), Democracy, Good Governance, and
Development in Africa (scholarly essays, co-editor). Other books
published, Keys in the River (stories
novel), Voices from Exile (poetry), Zimbabwe: The Blame Game (creative
nonfiction). He is also a visual artist (photography, painting, drawing,
collage, video.), sound/musical artist, mentor, translator, scholar, theorist,
reviewer, editor, critic... Work has been published in over 300 journals in
over 27 countries, translated into French, Germany and Spanish.
Daniel da Purificação, was born in
1983 in some place called Angola. Has a Bachelor diplome and Masters Degree. He
likes to speak and read, is always thinking and writing all the time. Since
2002 he has lived out of the place where he was born. He is a Honour invited at
Hispanamerican Writers summit HORAS DE JUNIO that happens every year in Sonora
(México). He also works as a journalist on rádio and a freelancer, teacher at
university, is a public policy consultant... He is also a recommended
facilitator and he talks about society, philosophy, politics, education,
democracy... He has two collections of poems (THE ANGOPOEMS and INTERMITENCIAS)
that he hopes will be postdeath publications... Now he lives between México and
Angola.
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