Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.
Featuring authors: Georges Lory, Frankétienne, Akinwumi Isola, Paulina Chiziane, Ahmad Fouad Negm, Fracis Bebey, Mia Couto, Miram Al-Masri, Scholastique Mukasonga, Breyten Breytenbach, Cedric Nunn, Abdellatif Laâbi, Ernetst Pépin, Aimé Césaire, John Berger, Louis Esterhuizen, Billy Kahora, Corsino Fortes, João Melo, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Hans van de Waarsenburg, Bill Dodd, Ko Un, Birago Diop, Albert Cossery, Athol Fugard, and Wole Soyinka.

Featuring translators: Jocelyn Spaar, Kaiama L. Glover, Akinloye Ojo, David Brookshaw, Catherine Cobham and Marilyn Booth, Christopher Winks, Jill Schoolman, Melanie Mauthner, Georges Lory, Donald Nicholson-Smith, John Berger and Anna Bostock, Charl J F Cilliers, Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien, Peter Boreas, Richard Silberg and Clare You.
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"As a writer, Breytenbach has the gift of being able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give life." -- J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books

"[Frankétienne's] work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without." -- Edwidge Danticat

"[Aimé Césaire is] one of the most powerful French poets of the century." -- New York Times Book Review

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Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.

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Featuring authors: Georges Lory, Frankétienne, Akinwumi Isola, Paulina Chiziane, Ahmad Fouad Negm, Fracis Bebey, Mia Couto, Miram Al-Masri, Scholastique Mukasonga, Breyten Breytenbach, Cedric Nunn, Abdellatif Laâbi, Ernetst Pépin, Aimé Césaire, John Berger, Louis Esterhuizen, Billy Kahora, Corsino Fortes, João Melo, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Hans van de Waarsenburg, Bill Dodd, Ko Un, Birago Diop, Albert Cossery, Athol Fugard, and Wole Soyinka.

Featuring translators: Jocelyn Spaar, Kaiama L. Glover, Akinloye Ojo, David Brookshaw, Catherine Cobham and Marilyn Booth, Christopher Winks, Jill Schoolman, Melanie Mauthner, Georges Lory, Donald Nicholson-Smith, John Berger and Anna Bostock, Charl J F Cilliers, Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien, Peter Boreas, Richard Silberg and Clare You.
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Praise

"As a writer, Breytenbach has the gift of being able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give life." -- J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books

"[Frankétienne's] work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without." -- Edwidge Danticat

"[Aimé Césaire is] one of the most powerful French poets of the century." -- New York Times Book Review

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