Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child

Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child
Title Mad Bob Repuplic: Bloodlines, Bile and a Crying Child PDF eBook
Author Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos
Publisher Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Pages 82
Release 2018-08-16
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0797495525

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Vote rigging, voter apathy, intimidations, biased reporting, hubristic political leaders, political gerrymandering, a confused world, and a tired and timid electorate: add to this the decay or death of every governance system or structure in Zimbabwe alongside an economy that is all but dead. These are the issues addressed in this poetry collection Mad Bob Republic. Is there an end to Zimbabwe’s problems? The poet contributes to ongoing discourses on the country.

Shades of Black

Shades of Black
Title Shades of Black PDF eBook
Author Edward Dzonze
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 115
Release 2020-09-06
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1779296053

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The pastor preach, the congregates bleach....here the artist is called to question the essence of morality in the wake of moral decadence. When the people speak and the superiors they speak to, take a dive deep into the questionable pools, the people speak to question, here the artist is called to sing. When the sun denies us the lustre at anticipated times, when the moon submits to darkness before we see the road awaiting us...we paint the pictures to depict the terrain and ask a question or plenty. When the land we have cannot make a home for us.... Unfathomably so, everybody wants to know how i lost the brighter shades of my skin colour to the political machinations of the Addis Ababa parliament. Verily I say; those are the Shades of Black for you.

Travellers Gather Dust and Lust

Travellers Gather Dust and Lust
Title Travellers Gather Dust and Lust PDF eBook
Author Mainoo, Gabriel Awuah
Publisher Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Pages 78
Release 2020-03-02
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1779065019

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Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is an award winning writer, a tennis professional, lyricist and playwright studying at the University of Cape Coast whose poem ‘Taunt’ won best satire of the year 2017 on VOAP: Voices of African poets. He serves as project manager to Ghana writes literary group and creative editor to WGM: Writers Global Movement magazine. His first published work ‘Afri-lad’ appeared on YMCA, 2016. Mainoo is an international anthologized poet who has featured on several journals, he is a contributor to Best New African Poets 2018, Bodies & Scars anthology, and poetry leaves bound volume among others. His next projects are three collections: ‘60 Aces of Haiku’, ‘Lyrical Textiles’ and ‘Chicken Wings’, a Christmas haiku. Many of his works, sometimes esoteric are well-known for their wonderful lyrical propensity and spontaneity. Critics affirm that his remarkable weave of words marks him as the ‘Lyricist Extraordinaire’.

This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry

This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry
Title This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry PDF eBook
Author Beaton Galafa
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 119
Release 2021-09-02
Genre Poetry
ISBN 177927260X

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Here is poetry that is personal yet spreading to have its tentacles struggling to grip into other equally slippery facets of life. In brief, Beaton writes his poetry to assuage his personal feelings yet in so doing he ends up massaging our shared experience - as Malawians, Africans and just as humans. Beaton has observed, learnt, and is growing in the Malawian poetry space. Thus, he also comes to the stage bearing the Malawian influence on his poetry.

Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems

Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems
Title Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems PDF eBook
Author Tendai R Mwanaka
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 107
Release 2023-01-23
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1779272529

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Poems in Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems deal with, among other issues, the North African uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and intersects into the Middle East conflicts in Syria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the never ending conflict between Israel and Palestine. These poems previously came out under Revolution: Struggle Poems, published in 2015, and the rest of the poems are from my latest poetry collection I am currently working on entitled Disobedience Poems. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, mentor, thinker, literary artist, visual artist and musical artist with over 40 books published. He writes in English and Shona.

A Portfolio of Defiance

A Portfolio of Defiance
Title A Portfolio of Defiance PDF eBook
Author Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos
Publisher Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Pages 87
Release 2019-07-23
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1779064810

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The first thing you will meet in this collection is experimentation and innovativeness in the writing. Poets should be scientists by experimenting with forms, styles, with subject matter too, they should continuously try to find new ways of writing, to problematicise what we have always taken for granted. The second issue is how we understand and critically dissect that point where art criticism and actual art can meet in the poetic form. The third issue is how irreverently the poet treates issues to do with the meaning of words, what words are, how he creates new words, what numbers are, the state of voice, language, thoughts, dreams, perspectives, life, race, death, dreams, spirituality, love etc… The fourth issue is the storytelling tradition that is strong in this collection; the poet is saying poets are also storytellers, who tell a story in condensed form with depth of thought and feeling. The fifth important aspect is defiance. The poet refuses to settle on anything, to accept anything, he is a literary rebel with language, no subject is taboo. A Portfolio of Defiance defiantly looks at the world before voice and the world after voice, and the worlds in between. What will human beings be without voice? Even nothingness has a voice!

The Rhythm of Life

The Rhythm of Life
Title The Rhythm of Life PDF eBook
Author Olivia Osuoha
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 169
Release 2019-12-19
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1779296045

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The Rhythm of Life is a record breaking book written in rhyme. It covers many facets of life, bent on the lessons, methods, and realities of life. Ngozi Olivia Osuoha is a poet, writer, thinker, and hymnist. She has published seventeen poetry books, including one co-written. She has featured in over sixty five international anthologies, and has also published over two hundred and fifty poems and articles in over twenty countries.