A GRADE 11 Afrikaans First Additional Language speaker at Greytown High School, Abigail van Staden, received honorary mention for two of her three poems that she entered into last year’s Grondwoorde ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/pft.2009.29.1.63 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/pft.2009.29.1.63 Copy URL ABSTRACT Olga Kirsch (1924–1997) occupies a unique ...

The African Poetry Book Series, made public earlier this week, will feature the work of African poets each year, publishing four titles beginning in 2014. The series was established in connection with ...

The world’s biggest online archive of pan-African poetry, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, will be hosting a live poetry event at Youngblood’s the Beautiful Life Building in Bree Street on Friday from 19:00 ...

Somali poet Warsan Shire has won the UK's Brunel University inaugural prize for African Poetry. The prize is for African poets who have not yet published a full-length poetry collection, and entrants ...

English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...

Around the time when African colonies began to gain independence from European colonial powers, African literature was born. It is neither ironic nor strange that it was born in Europe. It developed ...

In two months, America will be celebrating National Poetry Month for the 20th time. Whereas the African-American literary presence within the larger national literary scene is concerned, much has ...