Four poets of African descent shared their poems and reflected on their writing experiences at a poetry reading held by the Georgetown University Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice on Feb.

The UCLA African Studies Center held a memorial service for Kunene on Oct. 12. UCLA Today (http: //www.today.ucla.edu/2006/060815people_inmemoriam.html) Mazisi ...

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“New Generation African Poets” is a chapbook collection of ten of Africa’s newest voices. These poets share the common thread of African birth and the experience of immigration. They are from ...

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In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...

Maya Angelou’s award-winning work as a novelist and poet, her decadeslong sisterhood with African-American media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and the consistent accolades bestowed upon her – not least those ...