The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

Slapering Hol Press’s Seven New Generation African Poets, a box set of eight chapbooks edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani as part of the Poetry Foundations Poets in the World Series, seeks to ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. African Arts and Culture The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

Three months after taking his latest show dubbed the ‘The Colo(g)niser’ on a tour of Kwekwe, Bulawayo, Mutare and Harare, poetry sensation Andrew Manyika is once again raising the Zimbabwean flag high ...

“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...

If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates National Jazz Appreciation Month and Poetry Month in April with special digital offerings highlighting ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...