''The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry'' (in an earlier 1963 edition ''Modern Poetry from Africa'') is a 1984
poetry anthology
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edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The poems are arranged by the country of the poet, then by their date of birth. The following sections list the poets included in the collection.
Costa Andrade
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*Jofre de Foixà (died c. 1300), Catalan poet, musician and abbot
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Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Ruy Alberto Duarte Gomes de Carvalho (22 April 1941 – 12 August 2010) was an Angolan author and filmmaker, whose work, which over more than three decades spanned poetry, metafiction, and anthropology, focused on the Kuvale people of the sout ...
Dahomey
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Emile Ologoudou
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Cameroun
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Simon Mpondo
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Patrice Kayo
Patrice Kayo is an Ethnic groups of Africa, African scholar, poet, and author born in 1942 in Bandjoun, Western Province, Cameroon, West Province, Cameroon.
He is also known for his radical opposition to Paul Biya's political regime, and his advo ...
Tchicaya U Tam’si
Tchicaya U Tam'si (born Gérald-Félix Tchicaya 25 August 1931 - 22 April 1988) was a Congolese author; his pen name means "small paper that speaks for its country" in Kikongo.
Life
Born in Mpili, near Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (no ...
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Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (15 December 1938 – 4 July 2009) was a Congolese politician and poet. Having previously served as Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Arts and Culture, he was Minister of Hydrocarbons in the government of Co ...
Côte d'Ivoire
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Joseph Miezan Bognini
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Charles Nokan
Charles Zégoua Gbessi Nokan (28 December 1936 – 1 November 2022) was an Ivorian academic and writer. He was a member of the '' Académie des sciences, des arts, des cultures d'Afrique et des diasporas africaines'' and the author of several wor ...
Gambia
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Ellis Ayitey Komey
Ellis Ayitey Komey (1927 – 27 July 1972) was a Ghanaian writer and poet.
Early years and education
Komey was born in 1927 in Labadi, a suburb of Accra in the British colony of the Gold Coast.
He had his early education at Methodist Senior Boy ...
Guinea
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Ahmed Tidjani Cissé
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Khadambi Asalache
Khadambi Asalache (28 February 1935 – 26 May 2006) was a Kenyan poet and author who settled in London, England. He was later a civil servant at HM Treasury. He left his lavishly decorated South London terraced house, 575 Wandsworth Road, to th ...
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Jonathan Kariara
Jonathan Kariara (1935–1993) was a Kenyan poet who wrote works including "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree". He was born in 1935 at the Church of Scotland Mission, Tumutumu, in Nyeri County, Kenya, in 1935.
In the 1950s, he attended Makerere Unive ...
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the fi ...
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Flavien Ranaivo
Flavien Ranaivo (Arivonimamo, 13 May 1914 - Troyes
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Felix Mnthali
Felix Mnthali (born 1933 in Southern Rhodesia) is a Malawian poet, novelist and playwright. Educated at what is now the National University of Lesotho, Mnthali's works include a book of poetry, '' When Sunset Comes to Sapitwa'' (1980), and a novel ...
Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer. His first novel, ''Le devoir de violence'' (English: ''Bound to Violence'', 1968), won the Prix Renaudot. He later published ''Lettre à la France nègre'' (1969), and '' ...
Mauretania
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Oumar Ba Oumar Ba (1906 – 1964) was a physician and politician from Niger who served in the French Senate
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Noémia de Sousa
Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares, known as Noémia de Sousa (20 September 1926 – 4 December 2002),Anita De Melo"Noémia de Sousa" in ''Dictionary of Literary Biography: African Lusophone Writers''. was a poet from Mozambique who wrote i ...
Jorge Rebelo
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John Pepper Clark
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (6 April 1935 – 13 October 2020) was a Nigerian poet and playwright, who also published as J. P. Clark and John Pepper Clark.
Life
Born in Kiagbodo, Nigeria, to an Ijaw father and Urhobo mother, Clark received his ...
Michael Echeruo
Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo (born March 14, 1937) is a Nigerian academic, professor and literary critic from Umunumo, Ehime-Mbano LGA, Imo State. He is the William Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department at Syracuse Unive ...
Onwuchekwa Jemie
Onwuchekwa Jemie is a Nigerian scholar, poet, journalist, and professor.
Biography
Jemie was born in Abia State, Nigeria, and was educated at the Hope Waddell Training Institution at Calabar. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Co ...
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Aig Higo
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Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
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Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare is a leading African poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on March 12, 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he capaciously hybridizes with other poetic ...
Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina (born 1949) is a Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright and academic. He is the former Dean of Humanities and Education (until his retirement in 2014) and current Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies. His ...
Alda do Espirito Santo Alda may refer to:
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David Diop
David Mandessi Diop (9 July 1927 – 29 August 1960) was a French West African poet known for his contribution to the Négritude literary movement. His work reflects his anti-colonial stance.
Biography
Diop started writing poems while he wa ...
Syl Cheney-Coker
Syl Cheney-Coker (born 28 June 1945)R. Victoria Arana"Cheney-Coker, Syl" in ''Encyclopedia of World Poetry'', Infobase Learning, 2015. is a poet, novelist, and journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Educated in the United States, he has a globa ...
Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla (22 September 1932 – 9 January 2007) was a contemporary South African poet and novelist.
Biography
Born in a township near Krugersdorp, Sipho Sepamla lived most of his life in Soweto. He studied teaching at Pretoria Norm ...
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Mr Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (born 17 January 1940) is a South African poet. He has written in Zulu, English, and Afrikaans. He studied at Columbia University. He now lives in greenhills.
First Book
Mtshali was born in Vryheid, Natal, Sou ...
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Arthur Nortje
Arthur Kenneth Nortje (16 December 1942 – 11 December 1970) was a South African poet.
Life
Nortje was born in Oudtshoorn and went to school in Port Elizabeth, where he was taught by the acclaimed writer Dennis Brutus. After school he studied ...
Mukala Kadima-Nzuji
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Gwendoline Konie
Gwendoline Noreen Chomba Konie (9 October 1938 – 14 March 2009) was a Zambian poet, diplomat and politician. She was the Zambian ambassador to Scandinavia, the United Nations and Germany. She formed her own party in 2000 and stood as a candida ...