A younger Dennis Brutus, president of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Montreal, Canada in 1976. Neil Leifer /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images Fortunately for the rest of us South ...

Poet Ingrid de Kok is initiating her second series of "Unlocked: Poems for Critical Times" with a poem of her own. What follows is her introduction to the second series and an account of her ...

Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, ...

A Grade 1 girl from Isiphingo Primary School touched Mzansi with a heartfelt poem for her mother, as her confident ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

For poet and diplomat Abhay K, Africa was never a subject to be “covered” so much as a world to be entered with humility. Vast and layered, the continent is home to coffee, sweeping deserts, dishes ...

Thirty years is long enough for a festival to become something closer to a tradition, and Poetry Africa marks that milestone ...