Imagine Africa.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn :
Island Position,
2014.
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| 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.