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The African Saga is a collection of poems by Ugandan poet Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published in 1998, it won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award (1999), [ 3 ] It is a collection of 95 poems in four sections: “Poems of Protest”, “Relational Poems”, “Poems of Nature” and “Existential Poems”.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Willis in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma around 1840. He may have been inspired by the sight of the Red River, by which he was toiling, which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot (2 Kings 2:11).
Aileen Lucia Fisher (September 9, 1906 – December 2, 2002) was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible-themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently ...
Sieghart has published many books and is a regular broadcaster. His Poetry Pharmacy trilogy was published between 2017 and 2023 by Penguin, and a children's anthology "Everyone Sang" was published by Walker Books in 2021., [11] and 100 Prized Poems – 25 Years of the Forward Books was published by Forward in association with Faber & Faber in ...
Young is working on two books: a non-fiction book called Bunk on the U.S. history of lies and hoaxes, and a poetry collection that he has described as being "about African American history and also personal history, growing up in Kansas, which has a long black history including Langston Hughes and others."
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Keane emigrated to Great Britain in 1952. [2] He worked on BBC Radio's Caribbean Voices programme, [3] reading poetry and interviewing fellow writers and musicians. He began reading literature at London University by day, while also playing the trumpet in London nightclubs, [2] working in a number of styles including cabaret, highlife, soca, mento, calypso and jazz. [4]
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1] [2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher.