In Poetry: Contributing Agency to a Thriving Generation
I was an undergraduate when I first noticed the visibility gap between fiction and poetry in contemporary African literature. I’d wondered a lot why, as a student of English and Literature, nothing in my entire course work involved contemporary African poets; all I knew of African poetry at the time were colonial-era and postcolonial works. […]
Introduction
The poems we have curated in this anthology are electric, unruly, charged with desire and melancholies. They are intensely private yet quite magically find a way to be communal. There is a borderlessness to the poems, not just of geographies and identities but also of sensibility, syntax, style, subversion of the white space and awakening […]
