This work, first published in The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978) but written much earlier, is the best-known and the most anthologized of Gabriel Okara’s poems. It is also representative of his poetry because it engages the conflict of cultures, a major… Read More ›
This is one of the earliest poems of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo and has been widely anthologized. One of the most successful of his poems, it was first published in Poems (1962) and reprinted in A Reed in the Tide (1965)…. Read More ›
This 13-line free-verse poem starts with gratitude, “I thank you, my God, / for having created me black,” and establishes a mood of celebration. The next line, a continuation of the initial thought, creates a startling counterpoint: “for making me… Read More ›
I Sing of Change— Niyi Osundare I singof the beauty of Athenswithout slaves of a world freeof kings and queensand other remnantsof an arbitrary past Of earthwith nosharp northor deep southwithout blind curtainsor iron walls of the endof warlords and… Read More ›
Children of the Land (A Sequence for African Liberation) is from Kofi Anyidoho’s third collection of poems, Ancestrallogic and Caribbeanblues (sic). It is representative of his freedom poetry and was composed at the request of the Ghana Commission on Children… Read More ›
“Admonition to the Black World” begins with four prose paragraphs that summarize 25 centuries of foreign assault on Africa. Chinweizu thus gives his spectacular, 21-page prophetic harangue a historical and ideological context. Before the poem proper, readers are reminded that… Read More ›
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