Dzenchuo's Creeds of Primeval Griots might prove a richly treasured collection given that the poet’s ideological framework finds artistic expression in a number of aesthetic allusive, metaphorical and symbolic features.

NN Dzenchuo’s Songs of African Roses is a string of verses composed by a vigilant observer of the intrinsic beauty that Africa still has in contrast with the stigma of tyranny, war, disease and poverty that African people are always associated with. The poet demonstrates in these lucid and tranquil lines that Africa remains the cradle of humanity and, even with its weakness, harbours compassion, love and dignity.

The Griot Hymns are touching poems which chronicle Africa’s catastrophic moments and the leadership crises that the continent continues to grapple with. They also celebrate great Africans who have distinguished themselves as heroes and heroines of the continent. Above all these Hymns are a celebration of the African way of life as the griot paints a serene picture of food, women and dance.

Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls “misplaced or downright lost”; selections from Aidoo’s An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems; and select...

Inspirational Breathe is the collection of the different genre poems, such as prayer, narrative, couplet, dedicated, quatrain and others. All the poems are arrange systematically in composition of words and length, which brings or come up with the new idea and hope by reading. Among the 42, almost many of them have been published in various anthologies by different well-known publisher s. All the poems have certain effect, which is related to the feelings or emotions of human life. The ent...

Jayanta Mahapatra needs no introduction.Perhaps any discussion on Indian English Poetry is incomplete without reference to his poeticalworks. Mahapatra holds the distinction of being the first Indian English poet to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) for the current book "Relationship". "Relationship" reveals Jayanta Mahapatra's great efforts to transform his 'mute inglorious' sufferings which he connects with the sufferings of his nameless ancestors whose great s...

DIVERSE VISIONSBOOK ONE: subtitle HERITAGEINTRODUCTIONIn the reservoir of my mind, the concept of heritage is the origin, or the roots, of an antique distant setup denoting my source of inspiration. In this subtitle so many factors that urged me to share these deeply rooted human similitudes, differences, weaknesses, challenges, in joy, love, power, recognition, winning, just to loose or keep, the success nurtured to last....

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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964).Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet’s earliest lyric verse along with poems w...

Although based on true life story but furnished in a classical decoy, The Legend of the Zanga is told in a traditional village setting. Obodo had become a Zanga a jungle of continuous crisis. Aboki was a visitor who had sneaked in from the back gate but had taken control of the main gate. On his death , things fell apart. So as crisis married chaos, a child was conceived. This book, was fi rst written as a drama script in 2007 by the author during his National Youth Service in the title OU...

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 e...

The writing style has been purposefully adopted to suit the simple thought and immediacy of expresion of the tribal dialect, especially in the first section which is written at a latter date