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English
Archipelago Books
03 March 2015
A collection of contemporary writing and art from and about Africa, featuring writers including Breyten Breytenbach, Aime Cesaire, Franketienne, Corsino Fortes and Albert Cossery.

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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Imprint:   Archipelago Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 191mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   416g
ISBN:   9780914671183
ISBN 10:   0914671189
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Featuring authors- Georges Lory, Franketienne, Akinwumi Isola, Paulina Chiziane, Ahmad Fouad Negm, Fracis Bebey, Mia Couto, Miram Al-Masri, Scholastique Mukasonga, Breyten Breytenbach, Cedric Nunn, Abdellatif La bi, Ernetst Pepin, Aime Cesaire, John Berger, Louis Esterhuizen, Billy Kahora, Corsino Fortes, Jo o 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.

Reviews for Imagine Africa

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 [Franketienne'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 [Aime Cesaire is] one of the most powerful French poets of the century. -- New York Times Book Review


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