The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The poems are arranged by the country of the poet, then by their date of birth. The following sections list the poets included in the collection.
[Angola]
- Agostinho Neto
- António Jacinto
- Costa Andrade
- Ngudia Wendel
- Jofre Rocha, pseudonym of Roberto Francisco de Almeida
- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
[Benin] ([Dahomey])
- Emile Ologoudou
[Cameroun]
Cape [Verde Islands">Cape Verde">Cape [Verde Islands]
- Onésima Silveira
Congo Republic">Republic of the Congo">Congo Republic
[Côte d'Ivoire]
- Joseph Miezan Bognini
- Charles Nokan
Gambia">The Gambia">Gambia
[Ghana]
[Guinea]
- Ahmed Tidjani Cissé
[Kenya]
[Madagascar]
[Malawi]
[Mali]
[Mauretania]
- Oumar Ba
[Mauritius]
[Mozambique]
[Nigeria]
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Wole Soyinka
- John Pepper Clark
- Frank Aig-Imoukhuede
- Okogbuli Wonodi
- Michael Echeruo
- Pol N Ndu
- Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Aig Higo
- Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
- Niyi Osundare
- Odia Ofeimun
- Funso Aiyejina
San Tomé">São Tomé and Príncipe">San Tomé
[Senegal]
[Sierra Leone]
[South Africa]
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
[Uganda]
[Zaire]
- Antoine-Rober Bolamba
- Mukala Kadima-Nzuji