Mandela the Spear and Other Poems

Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
Author: Atukwei Okai
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0992187516

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The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.

Mandela the Spear and Other Poems

Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
Author: Atukwei Okai
Publisher: African Perspectives Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013-06-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0992187532

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The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okais burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.

Mandela's Earth and Other Poems

Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: New York : Random House
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1988
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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Mandela and Other Poems

Mandela and Other Poems
Author: John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1988
Genre: Nigerian poetry (English)
ISBN:

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Mandela the Spear

Mandela the Spear
Author: Atukwei Okai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2008
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9789964104573

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Mandela's Earth and Other Poems

Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1989
Genre: Nigerian poetry (English)
ISBN:

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Fertile Crossings

Fertile Crossings
Author: Pietro Deandrea
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789042014688

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In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund rapport and mutual influence.Authors such as Tutuola, Armah, Aidoo and Awoonor translated the fluid structures of orality into written prose, and consequently infused their works with poetic and dramatic resonance, thereby challenging the canonical dominance of social realism and paving the way for the birth of West African magical realism in Laing, Okri and Cheney-Coker.Starting in the 1970s, poetry on stage has become a mainstream genre in Ghana, thanks to performances by Okai, Anyidoho and Acquah.Boundaries between literary theatre and other genres have undergone a similar dissolution in the affirmation of the concept of 'total art' from Efua Sutherland to ben Abdallah, Osofisan and others. Fertile Crossingsoffers a study of these topics from various viewpoints, blending in-depth textual analysis with reflections on the political import of the works in question within the context of the present state of African societies, all supported by interviews with most of the authors.

Mandela's Bones and Other

Mandela's Bones and Other
Author: Sam Omatseye
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2012
Genre: Nigeria
ISBN: 9789784947374

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Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela at DOWNING: Poems in Five Senses

Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela at DOWNING: Poems in Five Senses
Author: Dotto Nshimba
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781490531953

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Chinua Achebe & Nelson Mandela at DOWNING is an impressive poems collection from an AFRICAN. The volume is a MUST READ anywhere. Take it at bed, in the library, in your coffee room, office and on transit its all possible. It is the voice from Africa after year of emptiness. Standard language and style with a range of poetic themes that will take you into the moon smiling. What is the Downing of the personality in the continent? Hold it read and find the African taste in the world of poems.

Mandela: Echoes of Apartheid and Impunity

Mandela: Echoes of Apartheid and Impunity
Author: Sam Madugba
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2015
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1496994434

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Mandela: Echoes of Apartheid And Impunity is a compilation of 26 humanistic and passion-sustained poems on the Late Dr Nelson Mandela, the defunct Apartheid Regime in South Africa and global human rights struggles. The poems written over a period of 31 years by a Nigerian poet and physician, capture in a compelling chronological sequence, the origin, course, hurts of Apartheid and local and global efforts orchestrated to overcome it. It further portrays the author's vision from the perspectives of man's inhumanity to man, impunity and unnecessary power display by man, white or black, and celebration of such rare virtues as courage, discipline, doggedness and the spirit of forgiveness found in the likes of Mandela, the anti-Apartheid hero, who volunteer to suffer persecutions and abuses in the course of liberating their people. The book which prophesied the capitulation of Apartheid from the outset, proffers solutions to racism and corruption. It ends up on sanguinary note, pontificating that man's liberation is in his hands though divine intervention is necessary and that human rights activism and liberation struggles do not always disappoint since the likes of Mandela and Gani Fawehinmi of Nigeria, though chronically incarcerated, lived to old age, and even idolized by all before death.