Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology

Anthologie Des Meilleurs "Nouveaux" Poètes Africans 2023/ Antologia Dos Melhores "Nov

Tendai Mwanaka, Hélder Simbad

• Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781779331717
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781779331571
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Poetry
• Index: Literature

From 2015 to 2023 we have been able to issue out, yearly, an anthology of Africa poets, through 9 years of publishing this beautiful anthology of the best contemporary African poets and in the process we have published and archived over 1000 African poets. And this year without fail we offer you Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology which comprises several dozens of African poets from the Portuguese, English and French speaking African countries. We expect the anthology to continue into another decade but also to seed into other forms of poetic expressions starting from next year. We intend to work on Best New African Poets International Festival of the Arts, an event that will bring together all these poets we have been able to publish the last 9 years to showcase their talent in a week of festivities in Harare, Zimbabwe. This year's anthology has poems that cover the usual gamut of issues: love, unrequited feelings, relationships, death, poetry making, politics, and we were excited to see Mashigo tackling the ongoing Israel/Hamas war, and the ill-treatment of the Palestinian people for generations under the Israeli government; culture, religion, spirituality, identity, belonging, memory, individuality and all sorts of other existential dilemmas that the young African poets deal with day to day.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• About editors
• Contributors’ Bio Notes
• Introduction
• POETRY
• SOUL
• WE ARE HUMANS TOO
• INE NDEPAPA
• IT SURPRISES ME (English translation)
• ABASUNGU BANEMBO
• WHITES WITH INCISIONS (English translation)
• INSEKU
• WEEDS (English translation)
• Dear Golden Eyed Lady
• Missive To Saharan Princess
• The Secret
• The sightseer
• Four by Four
• Beyond the War
• THIS IS OUR TIME
• THE BOAT OF LIFE
• PREDATOR STILL ROAMS AROUND
• THAT LUCK CHARM
• AFRICA DON’T BLINK
• Made in the oven
• I call it my freedom
• The future
• Dream of Desperation
• Spirit of the Heart
• Men of Africa
• THIS NIGHT IS A HALLOWEEN NIGHT
• THE RECONCILIATORY VOICE
• THE STRENGTH OF HOPE
• EPICEDIUM
• THE DIFFERENT SIMILARITY
• I MISS YOU
• THE WIND BRINGS SONGS
• WHY DO THEY SAY THE DAY BREAKS ?
• SEASON’S EXTRACT
• war reads like a poem
• when home is the only place
• the silence that nip the good bud
• to catch an oyster
• sangoma
• finding Sugar Man
• WALL
• PSYCHE IS NATURAL
• THE TRUE REASON
• THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN
• I HAVE LOST MY FREEDOM
• WHEN HOME CALLS, YOU SHOULD ANSWER
• My Father
• For the love of my Father
• I Still Remember
• My Mother Suffered
• gurkha
• 39 & 41
• erasure
• Adventure
• Life in the smartphone age
• Wishes
• BABA VAENDA
• DESPERATION
• THE A.I COUP
• Sex and Poetry
• Waiting for the Rain
• Wet dreams from the heavens
• IHEANYICHI
• COUPLING
• as the rain pitter-pattered
• MILITOCRACY
• WHAT A COLD WORLD
• CELESTIAL REFLECTION
• what 'll they be seeing?
• calling
• IT WILL BE OKAY
• A BRIGHT FACE, A GUIDING LIGHT
• The Stench
• On The Prowl
• The Same Dog
• A Hooligan’s Dark Paradise
• Aborted at Birth
• Where Do We Go When We Sleep
• Burnt Offerings
• After life
• HIS Majesty the QUEEN
• Wakeful
• She Melting Me To Love
• You're A True Friend Of Yourself
• The universe
• Ode to a pen
• Zim now
• Beautiful
• I am a winner!
• Altered spirits
• Like the starry night sky
• A change of taste
• Good
• Darling star!
• Time flies!
• A PLACE CALLED HOME
• PYRAYERS END HERE
• GOD BLESS YOUR SINS
• MY COUNTRY
• I WISH IF I HAD WINGS
• THE BLACK CRY TO MOTHER AFRICA
• Stops in a Winged Bracket
• Hands Sardined in Gold
• On The Journey of Returning
• The End of the Road
• The Songs for and of a Benedict
• Tyrant Time
• The Marvel of the Dandelion
• I live in Fear
• On Turning Fifty
• The Daddy Issues
• WEAVER BIRDS
• THE MAGICIAN IN MY BED
• You Have Come Again
• BAD DEBTS
• MASQUES OF DECEIT
• TO DISCOMBOBULATE
• HOW MY BROTHER PRONOUNCES HOME
• MY HOME, IS NOT A CADAVER OF ROSES
• BREAKING
• Pieces of Mirrored Light
• Sandra
• Hope Awake
• Requiem: Lekki Tollgate
• Summarised Women
• a poem// in which freedom means my father & his inadequacies
• I WHINED MY WAIST ROUND THE WORLD, A WHILE AGO
• SILTING 6
• /!!!\
• in this city
• times like this
• epitaphs
• Bulawayo
• ELES SABEM!?
• MARCAS DO SÉCULO XX
• RAZÕES PARA VIVER & PARA MORRER
• SENTI MENTALISTA(S) GLORIOSO(S)
• HOMEN
• FONTE
• nas pegadas do pássaro
• dimoyo
• Magras silhuetas
• Meu Coração é sua Praça
• Bolo em Fatias
• Delírios no pulmão da noite (Alias ou aluas?)
• Lunática comiseração
• Rugas no Sol
• Uigense
• Intensa Paixão
• A cada minuto
• Sou uma criança perdida
• Muro que há por detrás do mundo
• guardiã da vida
• plano eleito oral
• ESQUIZOFRÊNICO TEMPO II
• DUAS PALMAS DE PURGATÓRIO
• BICHINHOS NA PRAIA
• ZUNGUEIRAS “NO” MUSSULO
• NÃO AO RACISMO
• VAZIO
• ÁFRICA ERRANTE
• MENTE
• NÃO JAMAIS
• MISTÉRIO
• QUARENTONA
• AR TE FILOSOFANDO
• RUPTURA AOS PATRIOTAS
• RUPTURA AOS GOVERNANTES
• LABIRINTO
• SERENATA ANORGÁSMICA
• Lweji
• Mulemba solitária
• Grotte secrète
• Élèves...
• Souvenir
• Village des fous
• A la belle aux cieux
• Cantique africain
• Bronzitude
• Le feu du milieu
• Réminiscences
• L'Afrique contaminée
• A toi Afrique
• J’ai rêvé de toi Afrique
• Oublier
• Best New African Poets Collaborations
• Best New African Poets Interview
• Mmap New African Poets Series
• Back cover