Mandela The Spear And Other Poems

Author : Atukwei Okai
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0992187516
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela the Spear and Other Poems written by Atukwei Okai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.

Author : John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela and Other Poems written by John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela's Earth and Other Poems written by Wole Soyinka and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Atukwei Okai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789964104573
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela the Spear written by Atukwei Okai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela's Earth and Other Poems written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pietro Deandrea
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014688
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fertile Crossings written by Pietro Deandrea and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund rapport and mutual influence.Authors such as Tutuola, Armah, Aidoo and Awoonor translated the fluid structures of orality into written prose, and consequently infused their works with poetic and dramatic resonance, thereby challenging the canonical dominance of social realism and paving the way for the birth of West African magical realism in Laing, Okri and Cheney-Coker.Starting in the 1970s, poetry on stage has become a mainstream genre in Ghana, thanks to performances by Okai, Anyidoho and Acquah.Boundaries between literary theatre and other genres have undergone a similar dissolution in the affirmation of the concept of 'total art' from Efua Sutherland to ben Abdallah, Osofisan and others. Fertile Crossingsoffers a study of these topics from various viewpoints, blending in-depth textual analysis with reflections on the political import of the works in question within the context of the present state of African societies, all supported by interviews with most of the authors.

Author : Paul S. Landau
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447696
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spear written by Paul S. Landau and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory and definitive account of how Nelson Mandela and his peers led South Africa to the brink of revolution against the postwar twentieth century’s most infamously racist regime. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries brings to life the brief revolutionary period in which Nelson Mandela and his comrades fought apartheid not just with words but also with violence. After the 1960 Sharpeville police shootings of civilian protesters, Mandela and his comrades in the mass-resistance order of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party pioneered the use of force and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation. A civilian-based militia, MK stockpiled weapons and waged a war of sabotage against the state with pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and dynamite. In response, the state passed draconian laws, militarized its police, and imprisoned its enemies without trial. Drawing from several hundred first-person accounts, most of which are unpublished, Paul Landau traces Mandela’s allies—and opponents—in communist, pan-Africanist, liberal, and other groups involved in escalating resistance alongside the ANC. After Mandela’s capture, the Pan Africanist Congress planned to initiate street violence, and MK organized Operation Mayibuye, an uprising to be led by trained commandos. The state short-circuited those plans and subsequently jailed, exiled, tortured, and murdered revolutionaries. The era of high apartheid then began. Spear reshapes our understanding of Mandela by focusing on this intense but relatively neglected period of escalation in the movement against apartheid. Landau’s book is not a biography, nor is it a history of a militia or an army; rather, it is a riveting story about ordinary civilians debating and acting together in extremis. Contextualizing Mandela and MK’s activities amid anticolonial change and Black Marxism in the early 1960s, Spear also speaks to today’s transnational antiracism protests and worldwide struggles against oppression.

Author : Godfrey L. Brandt FRSA
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496982983
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madiba and Other Poems written by Godfrey L. Brandt FRSA and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of poetry is first and foremost a tribute to Madiba - Nelson Mandela, the inspiration for the volume and the subject of the title poem. Th e collection features poems written at various points in Brandt's career as a writer, cultural analyst and academic. 'Marie Village Beauty' goes back a long way to his childhood and is a first experiment with Guyanese Creole. Notably, there is also a tribute to Stephen Lawrence, a young black Briton who sadly lost his life in terrible circumstances and has been mourned by the nation ever since.

Author : Sam Omatseye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789784947374
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela's Bones and Other written by Sam Omatseye and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Atukwei Okai
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2086978588
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela the Spear and Other Poems written by Atukwei Okai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okais burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.