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This book investigates how African authors and artists have
explored themes of the future and technology within their works.
Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the
intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science
and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and
other arts within Africa have always reflected on themes of
futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including
science fiction), images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the
supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This
book reflects on themes of African futurism across a range of
literary and artistic works, also investigating how problems such
as racism, sexism, social injustice and postcolonialism are
reflected in these narratives. Chapters cover authors, artists,
movements and performers such Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa
Thiong’o, Elechi Amadi, Mazisi Kunene, Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren
Beukes, Leslie Nneka Arimah and the New African Movement. The book
also includes a range of original interviews with prominent authors
and artists, including Tanure Ojaide, Lauren Beukes, Patricia
Jabbeh Wesley, Benjamin Kwakye, Ntongela Masilela and Bruce
Onobrakpeya. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be
an important resource for researchers across the fields of African
literature, philosophy, culture and politics.
examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene explores how
'oraliterature' and cultural traditions informed Kunene's poetry
draws on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book
situates Kunene's work in a wider conversation about South African
social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our
understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As
such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary
and postcolonial studies.
examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene explores how
'oraliterature' and cultural traditions informed Kunene's poetry
draws on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book
situates Kunene's work in a wider conversation about South African
social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our
understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As
such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary
and postcolonial studies.
This book investigates how African authors and artists have
explored themes of the future and technology within their works.
Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the
intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science
and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and
other arts within Africa have always reflected on themes of
futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including
science fiction), images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the
supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This
book reflects on themes of African futurism across a range of
literary and artistic works, also investigating how problems such
as racism, sexism, social injustice and postcolonialism are
reflected in these narratives. Chapters cover authors, artists,
movements and performers such Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa
Thiong'o, Elechi Amadi, Mazisi Kunene, Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren
Beukes, Leslie Nneka Arimah and the New African Movement. The book
also includes a range of original interviews with prominent authors
and artists, including Tanure Ojaide, Lauren Beukes, Patricia
Jabbeh Wesley, Benjamin Kwakye, Ntongela Masilela and Bruce
Onobrakpeya. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be
an important resource for researchers across the fields of African
literature, philosophy, culture and politics.
We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a
fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic
voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples
of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher
Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this
anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the
discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time,
they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic
rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and
generational relations representative of the African continent.
Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank
Chipasula are included and in all there are contributions from 68
poets.
This collection of twenty-six poems are bonded by passion and
knowledge, and imaginations invoked which represent the vastness of
the human society: pictures of history, tributes to courageous
writers, the beauty of landscape, the indebtedness to folklore and
oral traditions, and the spontaneity of silent aspirations. Written
from a variety of perspectives, the collection is organized
thematically dealing with emotions and passions, in voices that
addresses both public and private concerns. The collection conjures
a universal and human vision of poetry, constructing and opening
doors of memory.
Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and
political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who was
arguably Africa's first poet to explore the existence of
territorial cults and natural shrines in his work. This book is
recommended for students and scholars seeking new interpretations
of the African experience in contemporary world literature.
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