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“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

From Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes a collection of poetry and prose exploring the self, joy, Blackness, gender, matters of the heart, spirituality, the experience of Diaspora, and above all, how we survive. Told in five parts, soft magic is a shared healing journey.

From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry. In nectar, Chisala guides listeners through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex, sometimes troubled roots while encouraging us to grow through and beyond them toward a passionate self-love. Chisala’s hope is that her words will encourage listeners to sow seeds of change in their own lives and the lives of others.

I want you to know that I see you. I want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you’re reading this, I see you. I see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. I see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be.

Chameleon Aura presents a harmonious blend of experience and advice through a chaptered series of prose and poetry that focuses on shared experiences in love and loss. Chapata's touching narrative celebrates humanity for their biological resilience and undeniable worth. This collection leaves listeners warm with hope for growth, rebirth, and, most prominently, self-acceptance.

As Soft as Fire collects Upile Chisala’s three acclaimed poetry books—soft magic, nectar, and a fire like you—in audiobook form, complete with the author’s reflections on her inspiration and process. soft magic, Chisala’s debut collection, explores themes of survival and healing; nectar expands on the topics of growth and renewal despite hardship; and a fire like you, her most recent collection, celebrates self-love and desire.

In this never-before-published collection, poet Upile Chisala grapples with themes of love, loss, and desire. Throughout this third book, she explores her identity as a black Malawian woman, offering intimate reflections on her life and experiences, imparting a stirring, universal message of empowerment and self-love.

Persévère partage avec vous des pensées édifiantes sur l'amour, la solitude et les relations humaines. Vous serez inspirés. Vous vous sentirez moins seuls et vous serez encouragés à approcher la vie avec une rare confiance en soi.

Endless Seasons is a collection of poems about oil, the Niger Delta, and emotions. Oppression, pain, corruption, exploitation and injustice are themes that run through the poems. There is the recurrent theme of female subjugation, as well as the deep personal struggles of the African woman. In diverse ways, the poems poignantly portray the sufferings of the women, men, and children of Africa.

Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in language, identity, class, gender, and beyond. This vital anthology is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond’s striking vision of a meeting place of perspectives, centered in the African and diaspora experience.

THE ORISHS WITHIN YOU: This Book Is About The Characteristics Of The Orisha's That Are Within You. This is Designed To Give Knowledge To The Infant Stage Beginners Who Are Wanting To Know The Characteristics Of The Orishas And How They're Connected To You. This Book Will Go Over 14 Orishas With Pictures That Fit Their Characters.

Professor Hakim Adi draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America.

Als sein kleiner Bruder verschwindet und alles darauf hindeutet, dass er die gefährliche Reise nach Europa angetreten hat, macht sich Ibrahima auf die Suche.

Con más de cuatro millones de ejemplares vendidos y traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas, Upile Chilsala está considerada por Elle, Vogue y el Huffington Post como una de las voces revelación de la prosa poética. Este es el primer audiolibro de prosa poética de la escritora malaui Upile Chisala. En él, la autora explora el yo, la alegría, el género, los asuntos del corazón, la experiencia de la diáspora, la espiritualidad y, sobre todo, aquello que nos hace sobrevivir. Una prosa poética que se convierte en un viaje de sanación compartido.

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic paths in Black skin.

Feeling E Feio foi maioritariamente escrito entre 2016 e 2018, apesar de parte dos poemas terem sido previamente publicados de alguma forma. A antologia junta vários status e locais por onde Danai Mupotsa passa, como filha, mãe, professora catedrática e escritora. Destes lugares, muitos dos poemas tentam abordar sentimentos difíceis sobre o que significa "fazer política" a partir de uma complexidade empática.

Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary, between the living and the dead, between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived. Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once.

Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable second collection follows the course of a 'blood condition' as it finds its way to deeply personal grounds. From the banks of the Zambezi river to London and Leeds, these poems speak to how distance and time, nations and history can collapse within a body. With astonishing lyricism and musicality, this is a story of multiple inheritances—of grief and survival, renewal and the painful process of letting go—and a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood.

Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries’ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body—and a mind—so often restless or ill at ease.

The Ugandan Tales is set in Uganda and is about the struggles of ordinary Africans against post-independence African rulers that preach freedom and emancipation but have turned into oppressors. This collection of poetry dives deep into topics of police brutality, social injustices, and oppression through the landscape of the tortured cities. Ordinary people seek to reassert their rights against an intransigent regime that is determined to keep them oppressed. The poems chronicle everyday struggles that are faced at the hands of fellow Africans masquerading as Pan-Africanists.