Lupenga Mphande - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lupenga Mphande write by Dike Okoro. This book was released on 2021-04-26. Lupenga Mphande available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who is arguably Africa’s first poet to explore the existence of territorial cults and natural shrines. This book is recommended for students and scholars seeking new interpretations of the African experience in contemporary world literature.
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa write by Kimani Njogu. This book was released on 2007. Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together essays on songs and politics in the region of Eastern Africa and beyond. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, world views, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa.
Bending the Bow
Bending the Bow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bending the Bow write by Frank M Chipasula. This book was released on 2009-08-05. Bending the Bow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This anthology is a work of literary archaeology that lays bare a genre of African poetry that has been overshadowed by political poetry. Frank Chipasula has assembled a historically and geographically comprehensive wealth of African love poetry that spans more than three thousand years. By collecting a continent’s celebrations and explorations of the nature of love, he expands African literature into the sublime territory of the heart. Bending the Bow traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialogue. The anonymously written love poems fromPharaonic Egypt that open the anthology both predate Biblical love poetry and reveal the longevity of written love poetry in Africa. The middle section is devoted to sung love poetry from all regions of the continent. These great works serve as the foundation for modern poetry and testify to love poetry’s omnipresence in Africa. The final section, showcasing forty-eight modern African poets, celebrates the genre’s continuing vitality. Among those represented are Muyaka bin Hajji and Shaaban Robert,two major Swahili poets; Gabriel Okara, the innovative though underrated Nigerian poet; Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal and a founder of the Negritude Movement in francophone African literature; Rashidah Ismaili from Benin; Flavien Ranaivo from Madagascar; and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Ranging from the subtly suggestive to the openly erotic, this collection highlights love’s endurance in a world too often riven by contention. Bending the Bow bears testimony to poetry’s role as conciliator while opening up a new area of study for scholars and students.
Things Circular
Things Circular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things Circular write by Mphande, Lupenga. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Things Circular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lupenga Mphande is among Malawi's leading linguists, poets, and writers. A prize-winning poet, he has published two volumes of his poems, Crackle at Midnight (1998) and Messages Left Behind (2011), and contributed many poems to such major anthologies as When My Brothers Come Home: Poems from Central and Southern Africa (1995), The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (1991), Poems-Deep and Dangerous (1995), and Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry (2009). He is currently Professor of African and African American Studies at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Mazisi Kunene
Mazisi Kunene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mazisi Kunene write by Dike Okoro. This book was released on 2022-12-14. Mazisi Kunene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetry, how Kunene’s poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.
