The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology
The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology

Author: Liesl Jobson

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1431402753

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Poetry anthology in multiple languages, with translations into English. Foreword / Liesl Jobson -- It is a risk / Ingrid Andersen -- Sterkfontein Bones ; Remembering Afghanistan / Christine M Coates -- Anatomy ; With her Feet on the Ground ; Don't speak / Gail Dendy -- The Anatomy of Poetry ; Miracle ; Digger / Dawn Gari -- Sitting ; For Gemma / Anthea Garman -- A Terible Beauty / Denise Gray -- In the Balance ; Curry Kindling ; Weather and Season Song / Dorian Haarhoff -- Chernobyl ; Blushing brides / Megan Hall -- my mentor is dressing me / Geoffrey Haresnape -- My Ma se Blues ; Song ; Prelude for Solo and Group Voices / Siddiq Khan -- Ubomi ; Life / Nosipho Kota --she imagines ; the city ; manning road / Luisa Lagerwall -- The uncomfortable silence / Jennifer Lovemore-Reed -- Ku Cindzuka ka Lwase = The Ripening of Lust ; Ku Jayivha na N'wayingwani = Jive with N'wayingwani / Risimati Mathonsi -- Dithoto = Assets ; Ba lebetse batlhoki = They have forgotten the poor / Kea' Modimoeng -- Phamokate wa ratha wa fenetha =The rage of Aids ; Thabure = Thabure / Tsela Moloi -- For Your Drinking Pleasure / Jackie Mondi -- List of Sound Effects ; Eight Critical Questions ; His Explanation / Kobus Moolman -- Runaway / Dashen Naicker -- O a ipona = He is full of himself ; Ga gešo mekgotheng = In my neighbourhood ; Natla tša ntwa ya tokologo = Heroes of war of freedom / Puleng Nkomo -- Soekers = Seekers ; Verlore beeltnis = Lost Picture / Martha Pretoors -- After Battiss ; I Remember Bethesda / Gillian Rennie -- Your Heart was a Squatter-Camp ; Has your Dad got a bird yet? / Beverly Rycroft -- The wind at Uilenskraalmond / Karin Schimke -- Robben Island : Museum in the Making / Mavis Smallberg -- Remembering prisons and prisoners / Abu Bakr Solomons -- Lovuka lelosiko = Tradition Awakens Again / Bhekani Thabede -- Trampled ; For Maria Pilar ; The last autumn leaf / Chris van der Walt -- Far Away ; Fathomless ; Matchstick Girl/ Tania van Schalkwyk -- Biographies -- What is the European Union?

The Contested Idea of South Africa
The Contested Idea of South Africa

Author: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1000476936

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This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the identity of a people. Today the new struggles ‘for South Africa’ and ‘to become South African’ are inextricably intertwined with complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.

Sol Plaatje's Mhudi
Sol Plaatje's Mhudi

Author: Sabata-mpho Mokae

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1847012760

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"Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is the first full-length novel in English to have been written by a black South African and is widely regarded as one of South Africa's most important literary works. Set in the 1830s, it tells the tale of Mhudi and Ra-Thaga, a romantic story set against a violent backdrop of war between Barolong and Matebele, complicated by the intrusions of Boer trekkers with whom the Barolong form an alliance. It is notable, among other things, for the way Plaatje uses the past to explore the roots of the oppression and injustice suffered by his people a century later, when the book was written"--Page 4 of cover

BILAKHULU!
BILAKHULU!

Author: Vonani Bila

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2015-12-29

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 192847621X

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VONANI BILA was born in 1972 in Shirley village, Limpopo, where he still lives. He is the author of five books of poems in English and eight story-books for newly literate adult readers in Sepedi, Xitsonga and English. Bila is a driving force in South African poetry - founding editor of the Timbila poetry journal, publisher of Timbila books and founder of Timbila Writers' Village, a rural retreat centre for writers. Married with three children, he teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Limpopo, and in the MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University.

Writing Woman Anthology
Writing Woman Anthology

Author: Tendai Mwanaka

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2023-09-18

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1779314612

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Writing Woman Anthology: Poetry and Visual Art, Volume 3 is the most representative of the three books in this anthology as it has a balance of Asian and African writers and artists. Each poet and artist tackled what it means to be a woman in Africa and Asia. The anthology has 20 Chinese poets writing in Chinese language and accompanying translations into English, 1 poet from Inner Mongolia, 2 from Turkey, 4 from India and the diasporas, and 23 African artists and poets from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana, all dissecting woman’s agency, existence and identity in the religious and cultural limitations of the 21st century Africa and Asia.

Best "New" African Poets Anthology 2020
Best

Author: Rinos Mwanaka

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1779255764

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Best New African Poets 2020 Anthology, which can be in part titled the Covid Diaries is the 6th volume of the yearly anthology of contemporary African poets, Best New African Poets (BNAP). In this anthology the poets tackle the covid pandemic, some with fear, some with pain, some with anger, some with forebodings of danger; you sense the feeling of insecurity in all of the entries around this issue. This is understandable. As a humanity we have had to go, and we are still going, through one of the most terrible times in our existence, as millions get swept away in this tidal danger. But we will vanquish this monster, we will come out stronger, in the meanwhile as we fight this monster we continue celebrating our humanity in love poems, in spiritual poetry, in politics and governance, in developmental agendas, in foods, in day to day connections, which will outstay this menace. Best New African Poets 2020 Anthology has over 352 pieces from 140 African poets from among other African countries: Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Comoros, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroun, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana etc, and those of African Diasporas in Portugal, Brazil, the UK, USA, China, etc

‘mamaseko
‘mamaseko

Author: Thabile Makue

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1496220110

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Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood—to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.

Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
Failing Maths and My Other Crimes

Author: Jijana, Thabo

Publisher: uHlanga

Published: 2016-02-22

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0620676930

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In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man’s life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse.

Remnants Restante Reste
Remnants Restante Reste

Author: Snyckers, Annette

Publisher: Modjaji Books

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1928215599

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Her poems are as subtle and intimately telling as the differences between the three languages in which she writes and battles to live and dream. These verses touch and tug at one another like the Afrikaans of her childhood, the German of her husband and the South African English of her homeland. They agree to differ in all sorts of nuanced ways.