Saturday, November 21, 2015

Final List of, BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS 2015 ANTHOLOGY

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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