African Poets of the Week Compilation

African Poets of the Week Compilation

I've been negligent in my Poets of the Week the past few months so I thought I would do a little organizing and put together all of the poets that I've featured in the past.  I've included them below.

That Spring in 1994: Recollections on Rwandan Genocide
My recollections on Rwandan Genocide.

Poet of the Week: Muhammed Al-Faituri (Sudan)

Poet of the Week: Noémia de Sousa (Mozambique)

Poet of the Week: Mbella Sonne Dipoko (Cameroon)

Poet of the Week: Muhammed Bennis (Morocco)

Poet of the Week: Fatima Mahmoud (Libya)

Poet of the Week (and one of my all-time favorites) Ashur Etwebi (Libya)

Poet of the Week: Makuzayi Massaki (Angola)

Poet of the Week: Khalil Mutran (Syria/Egypt)

Poet of the Week: Jofre Rocha (Angola)

Poet of the Week: Jorge Rebelo (Mozambique)

Poet of the Week: Gwendoline Konie (Zambia)

A brave poet of the week: Abdirashid Omar (Somalia)

Poet of the Week: Frank Chipasula (Malawi)

Poet of the Week: Joseph Miezan Bognini (Cote d'Ivoire)

Poet of the Week: Baralong Seboni (Botswana)

Poet of the Week: Khaled Mattawa (Libya)

Poet of the Week: Everybody dreams of kissing you (Okai from Ghana)

Poet of the Week- Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (Congo)

Poet of the Week: Al Saddiq Al Raddi (Sudan)

Poet of the Week: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Madagascar)

Poet of the Week: Manuel Monteiro (Angolan National Anthem)

Poet of the Week: Niyi Osundare (Nigeria)

Poet of the Week: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
In the Small Hours 

Poet of the Week: President Leopold Senghor (Senegal)

Poet of the Week: Hassan El Ouazzani (Morocco)

Lawful Magic

Poet of the Week: Rapper/Poet K'naan (Somalia)

Poet of the Week: Ali Houssaini (Moroccan National Anthem)

Poet of the Week: Moufdi Zakaria (Algeria National Anthem)

Poet of the Week: Leopold Senghor (Senegal)
Black Woman

Poet of the Week: Leopold Senghor (Senegal)

Noliwe 

Some of my favorite poetry books: