Imagine Africa.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn : Island Position, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : poets to your quills, Africa is taking off / Georges Lory
  • The dialect of untamed hurricanes / Frankétienne
  • Utwitting ; Lies ; Warning / Akinwumi Isola
  • Who's in charge here? / Paulina Chiziane
  • Alexandria, your sea is full of women ; The eyes of words / Ahmad Fouad Negm
  • The Ifé mask / Francis Bebey
  • The frotnier of culture / Mia Couto
  • From Elle va nue la liberté / Miram al-Masri ; translated from the French by Jill Schoolman
  • Fear / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
  • Bride in the water with swallows ; Hangmoon brightly lost ; The favour ; "This is the way the song was sung" ; Dirge for a revolution ; Small etymology lesson / Breyten Breytenbach ; translated from the Afrikaans by Georges Lory and Breyten Breytenbach.
  • Madhlawu : photographs and essay / Cedric Nunn
  • The community of Arabas lost--and found / Abdellatif Laâbi ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
  • Aimé Césaire / Ernest Pépin ; translated from the French by Christopher Winks
  • From Cahier d'un retour au pays natal / Amié Césaire ; translated from the French by John Berger and Anna Bostock
  • Do you think there's something back there in the boot? ; Butterflies / Louis Esterhuizen ; translated from the Afrikaans by Charl J.F. Cilliers
  • Treadmill love / Billy Kahora
  • The prostitute ; I pass through the days ; Lette from Bia d'Ideal / Corsino Fortes ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien
  • Empty boat / Jill Schoolman
  • An edifying story / João Melo ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw
  • The litigant ; From the ashes of a pigeon ; Anthems of the nation ; Galway ; Atmospheric spirits / Ali Jimale Ahmed
  • Across the fields ; Galway ; Aran Islands / Hans van de Waarsenburg ; translated from the Dutch by Peter Boreas.
  • Imagining Africa ; Ko Un at Kersefontein ; Seamus Heaney in Italy ; Opening up ; Autumn in the Casentino ; The pieces / Bill Dodd
  • Prelude ; Sadness ; Majung Village / Ko Un
  • The breath of the ancestors ; A young black child's prayer / Birago Diop ; translated from the French by Jocelyn Spaar
  • The beggars ; Misery ; Night / Albert Cossery
  • From Statements after an arrect under the Immorality Act / Athol Fugard
  • Apologia (nkomati) / Wolf Soyinka.