Selected poems from Kwame Dawes' selection of new African poets.
Ama Asantewa Diaka (Ghana), Charity Hutete (Zimbabwe), Daisy Odey (Nigeria), Dalia Elhassan (Sudan), Dina El Dessouky (Egypt), Gbenga Adeoba (Nigeria), Hiwot Adilow (Ethiopia), Musawenkosi Khanyile (South Africa), Nour Kamel (Egypt), Salawu Olajide (Nigeria). Spanish translation by Diana Brenda Galván.
“…If Western poetics seem fascinated by the discourse of bodies, the poets will give that world bodies. If the Western perception of Africa is that men are sexist and oppress women and that fathers are absent, they will write about men made of these traits. […] We are not worried, because opportunity, like publication, enables the changes any literary movement needs…”
— Kwame Dawes
