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Journal articles on the topic "POETRY / African"

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Gohar, Saddik M. "The dialectics of homeland and identity: Reconstructing Africa in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Mohamed Al-Fayturi." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 45, no. 1 (2018): 42–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.45i1.4460.

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The article investigates the dialectics between homeland and identity in the poetry of the Sudanese poet, Mohamed Al-Fayturi and his literary master, Langston Hughes in order to underline their attitudes toward crucial issues integral to the African and African-American experience such as identity, racism, enslavement and colonisation. The article argues that – in Hughes’s early poetry –Africa is depicted as the land of ancient civilisations in order to strengthen African-American feelings of ethnic pride during the Harlem Renaissance. This idealistic image of a pre-slavery, a pre-colonial Afr

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Awuzie, Solomon. "Mirroring the society, mirroring its hospitals: Hyginus Ekwazi's poetry and the challenge of nation-building." English Studies at NBU 5, no. 1 (2019): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.19.1.4.

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Anglophone African poetry has become a significant medium through which African society from the year 2000 to date is mirrored. The younger Anglophone African poets, widely referred to as the poets of the third-generation, have always used their poetry as means to respond to both historical and current socio-political circumstances that tend to distinguish Africa from the rest of the world. Their poetry now constitutes counter-hegemonic discourse against bad leadership in Africa and against corrupt African social and medical institutions. Using Hyginus Ekwuazi’s The Monkey’s Eyes as a represen

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Dawes, Kwame, and Tanure Ojaide. "Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry." World Literature Today 71, no. 3 (1997): 633. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40152975.

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BOOTH, JAMES. "West African Poetry." African Affairs 87, no. 347 (1988): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098029.

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Kanaganayakam, Chelva. "African Poetry Reconsidered." World Literature Written in English 31, no. 2 (1991): 131–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449859108589171.

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Obiora, Anichebe, Ibuot Emmanuel, and Nwankwo Nnamdi. "Imagination, reason and traditional African poetry." IKENGA International Journal of Institute of African Studies 23, no. 1 (2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53836/ijia/2022/23/1/008.

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One phantasm of the colonial experience in Africa is the spirited search for an African identity, which Eurocentrism tried to blot out through different ways, ranging from the denial of its existence to an outright replacement of it with accounts that revert to the occidental for validation. As a contribution to this identity-crisis management project, Afrocentric scholarship, from ethnophilosophy to present-day decolonial discourses, has tried to challenge that dominant narrative based on suppressed facts and logical reasoning. Studies of these kinds generally swing between oppositional schol

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Ogunnaike, Oludamini. "The Presence of Poetry, the Poetry of Presence." Journal of Sufi Studies 5, no. 1 (2016): 58–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341283.

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The composition and performance of Arabic Sufi poetry is the most characteristic artistic tradition of West African Sufi communities, and yet this tradition has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In this article, I sketch an outline of a theory of Sufi poetics, and then apply this theory to interpret a performance of a popular Arabic poem of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975), founder of the most popular branch of the Tijāniyya in West Africa.

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Frolova, Natal'ya S. "Devices of comic in the work of the 20th century English-speaking Ugandan poets." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 4 (2019): 140–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-4-140-144.

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Poetry of the Ugandans are analysed in an article in the context of the use of devices of comic in the East African English-language poetry. The critical-realistic and enlightener tendencies that were eagerly apprehended by most East African authors in the 1960s have not allowed them going beyond the direct criticism of damning poetry to this day as well, although point-by-point attempts to use humour and satire when contemplating socio-political issues, do occur throughout the sixty-year existence of East Africa English-language poetry. The dilogy by Okot p’Bitek, Timothy Wangusa and Taban Lo

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Kharitonova, Elena. "Value-Semantic Blocks in Images of African Poetry (in the Context of Historical and Social Changes)." Uchenie zapiski Instituta Afriki RAN 66, no. 1 (2024): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2024-66-1-127-144.

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The article presents an interdisciplinary study at the intersection of culturology and African studies. The author suggests that the formation and transformation of values and meanings in Africa were influenced by specific facts of the history of sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, a colossal cultural layer is associated with the colonial past of African countries, with the influence of Western culture and Western values. Colonization of the continent, the struggle for freedom and independence, racial problems have determined the identity of Africans, the specifics of their identification, th

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épouse Coulibaly, Cissoko Saran, and Aboubakar Goynougo. "Syntaxe et signifiance de la parole conative dans la poésie Africaine Francophone." Traduction et Langues 22, no. 2 (2023): 186–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/translang.v22i2.957.

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Syntax and Meaning of Conative Speech in Francophone African Poetry For those with an interest in African poetry, particularly Francophone poetry, several distinctive features underlie its originality and authenticity. These encompass rhythm, symbolism, and poetic imagery, serving as fundamental markers of the dominant poetic function within poetic discourse. These elements are inevitable considerations in any analysis, be it poetic or stylistic, of literary texts. Poetry in Africa, and conceivably beyond, undoubtedly serves a pragmatic, or more precisely, pragma-enunciative function, of

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "POETRY / African"

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Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. "Various voices in African poetry : analysis of poems of black Africa." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Litteraturvetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2767.

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Adu-Gyamfi, Yaw. "Orality in writing, its cultural and political function in Anglophone African, African-Caribbean, and African-Canadian poetry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0027/NQ37868.pdf.

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Devereux, Stephen. "Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7934.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape Town in late middle age (‘post-exilic’). Themes explored include the deceptive nature of memory and the risk of imbuing a childhood recollected in later life with affective or narrative nostalgia; the psychologically dislocating nature of exile on personal identity and notions of home; and Cape Town as both an imaginary construct and a multi-layered real

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MacDonald, T. Spreelin. "Steve Biko and Black Consciousness in Post-Apartheid South African Poetry." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273169552.

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Bokoda, Alfred Telelé. "The poetry of David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17400.

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Bibliography: pages 217-232.<br>Yali-Manisi, a Xhosa writer, performs and writes traditional praise poetry (izibongo) and modern poems (isihobe) and can, therefore, be regarded as a bard because he also performs his poetry. One can safely place him in the interphase as he combines performance and writing. The influence of oral poems and other oral genres can be perceived in his works as some of his works are a product of performances which were recorded, transcribed and translated into English. The dissertation, among other things, examines the way in which Yali-Manisi's work has been influenc

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Karassellos, Michael Anthony. "Critical approaches to Soweto poetry : dilemmas in an emergent literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18830.

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A review of contemporary South African and European critical approaches 'to "Soweto poetry" is undertaken to evaluate their efficacy in addressing the diverse and complex dynamics evident in the poetry. A wide selection of poetry from the 1970's and early 1980's is used to argue that none of the critical models provide an adequate methodology free from both pseudo-cultural or ideological assumptions, and "reader-grid"(imposition of external categories upon the poems).From this point of entry, three groups of critics with similar approaches are assessed in relation to Soweto poetry. The second

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Tait, Charles Norman. "Die verjaardagvers-ritueel in Breyten Breytenbach se oeuvre." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/5076.

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This study investigates the subgenre of the birthday poem within Breyten Breytenbach’s poetical oeuvre. Throughout the now half a century of his poetic production the writer has repeatedly written poems for himself on his birthday on 16 September of each new year (as well as a smaller number to his wife and close friends) The writing of birthday poems becomes a ritualist poetical act throughout the poet’s life and poetical oeuvre, one that has served many purposes over the years of Breytenbach’s increasingly nomadic existence. This study’s scope spans fifty years of poetical output, starting w

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Balanescu, Mihai S. "Metamorphoses and ritualism in Harlem Renaissance poetry." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368177.

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Nolutshungu, Simphiwe. "Sunrays in a chilly winter." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017777.

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In both my English and IsiXhosa poetry, my themes are love, politics, and the social issues of rural communities, and include my own life experiences, both good and bad. My poems are mainly short narrative accounts of township life. Although they do have a broad educational purpose, they do not preach to the reader. In IsiXhosa, my poetic forms are influenced by the works of J J R Jolobe, W N Mbovane, P T Mtuze, and my English poems by Pablo Neruda, Mafika Pascal Gwala, Garcia Lorca and others.<br>Intliziyo yona izimele gxebe ifihlakele Iyimfihlo, kumagumbi omphefumlo. Iyafunxa, ifukame kulo m

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Jadezweni, Mhlobo Wabantwana. "Aspects of isiXhosa poetry with special reference to poems produced about women." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006364.

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This study investigates the use of modern and izibongo (praise poetry) techniques in representing women in selected isiXhosa poems. The main interest of the study is to determine whether the same techniques to depict men are used when writing about women. It is also the interest of the study to ascertain how gender issues are dealt with in the selected poems. Seminal studies on izibongo by eminent scholars in this field show a serious lack of critique and little recognition of women in African languages’ poetry in general and in isiXhosa in particular. Pioneering studies in Nguni poetry about

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Books on the topic "POETRY / African"

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1953-, Morris Jane, ed. Intwasa poetry. 'amaBooks, 2008.

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1953-, Morris Jane, ed. Intwasa poetry. 'amaBooks, 2008.

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Harley, Avis. African acrostics. Candlewick Press, 2009.

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S, Joubert Brian, ed. Under African skies: An anthology of African verse. Poetry Institute of Africa at Unique Publications, 1999.

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Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. Ahmadu fulani: An african poetry. Africa World Press, 2004.

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Rasheed, Naʼallah Abdul, ed. Almajiri: A new African poetry. Africa World Press, 2001.

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E, Senanu K., and Vincent Theo, eds. A Selection of African poetry. Longman, 1988.

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D, Tillis Antonio, ed. Caribbean African upon awakening: Poetry = Caribe africano en despertar. Mango Pub., 2010.

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Ojaide, Tanure. Poetic imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African poetry. Carolina Academic Press, 1996.

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Egudu, Romanus N. African poetry of the living dead: Igbo masquerade poetry. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "POETRY / African"

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Osei-Nyame, Kwadwo. "African Poetry." In A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470998670.ch20.

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Ellis, R. J. "African-American Fiction and Poetry." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470756935.ch15.

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Ojaide, Tanure. "Performance, the New African Poetry, and My Poetry: A Commentary." In Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137560032_18.

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Gaudioso, Roberto. "Euphrase Kezilahabi's thinking poetry." In Critical Conversations in African Philosophy. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003172079-3.

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Brown, Nicholas Mainey. "Swahili Poetry, Classical Tradition." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_362.

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Adesina, Olukemi B. "Explicature and Implicature in Selected ABCDERIAN Yoruba Poetry." In African Language Media. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003350194-26.

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Ojaide, Tanure. "Reviving Modern African Poetry: An Argument." In Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137560032_10.

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Okoro, Dike. "Futuristic themes in modern African poetry." In Futurism and the African Imagination. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003179146-8.

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Wonodi, Ikwunga, and Dike Okoro. "Afrobeat poetry and the African imagination." In Futurism and the African Imagination. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003179146-14.

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Brown, Nicholas Mainey. "Swahili Poetry, Stylistics and Metrics." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_363.

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Conference papers on the topic "POETRY / African"

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Sun, Guodong. "Exploring Challenges and Solutions in Imagery Alignment Within an English-Chinese Parallel Corpus of African English Poetry." In 2024 5th International Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Information Technology (AINIT). IEEE, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ainit61980.2024.10581845.

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Urquhart, Zachary. "From Text to Voice: Analyzing the Voice of African American Studies Curricula Through Poetic Inquiry." In AERA 2022. AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/ip.22.1890976.

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Urquhart, Zachary. "From Text to Voice: Analyzing the Voice of African American Studies Curricula Through Poetic Inquiry." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1890976.

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Haupert, Mary Ellen. "CREATIVITY, MEANING, AND PURPOSE: MIXING CULTURES IN CREATIVE COLLABORATION." In INNODOCT 2019. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/inn2019.2019.10109.

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Music composition is embedded into the Viterbo University music theory curriculum to promote active engagement of musical materials. The project accomplishes three basic complementary outcomes: 1) Students will be able to creatively apply and develop the foundations of music theory learned in their first year of university-level music study, 2) Students will develop proficiency using music writing software, and 3) Students will overcome their fear of composition and gain confidence as musicians. Students are taught foundational concepts during the first four semesters of music theory; these co

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Mangwegape, Bridget. "TEACHING SETSWANA PROVERBS AT THE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING IN SOUTH AFRICA." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end118.

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The paper sought to investigate how first year University student’s-teachers understand and instil appreciation of the beauty of Setswana language. Since the proverbs are carriers of cultural values, practices, rituals, and traditional poetry, they are rich in meaning, they can be used to teach moral values for the sake of teaching character building among the students and teaching Setswana at the same time. Proverbs contain values of wisdom, discipline, fairness, preparedness, destiny, happiness, and efforts. Proverbs are short sayings that contain some wisdom or observation about life and or

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