The Word Behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile [Hardcover]

Kofi Anyidoho (Author), Jane Guyer (Foreword)

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Bayonets by Kofi Anyidoho
Guilt by Kofi Anyidoho
Nostalgia by Kofi Anyidoho
Santrofi by Kofi Anyidoho
Abafazi (women) by Dennis Brutus
Catena by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 1 by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 2 by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 3 by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 4 by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 5 by Dennis Brutus
Endurance: 5 by Dennis Brutus
Exile by Dennis Brutus
February, 1990 by Dennis Brutus
For Wcjb; My Brother, Who Died In Exile by Dennis Brutus
The Fort Prison; For Ncadp And John Spenkelink, May 26, 1989 by Dennis Brutus
Prison by Dennis Brutus
Still The Sirens by Dennis Brutus
A Studious High-school Boy He Looked by Dennis Brutus
Achimota: From The Story My Mother Taught Me by Abena P. A. Busia
All My Friends Are Exiles by Abena P. A. Busia
And I Am A Woman Ravished And Naked by Abena P. A. Busia
Liberation by Abena P. A. Busia
Mawu/mawo by Abena P. A. Busia
Migrations by Abena P. A. Busia
Petitions by Abena P. A. Busia
Sermons From Riverside: 1. Choices by Abena P. A. Busia
June 16 Year Of The Spear by Keorapetse Kgositsile
Red Song by Keorapetse Kgositsile
Chronicle Of Our Rhyming Exile (or Delights Of Another Alien Louse) by Jack A. Mapanje
Containing Cockroaches: Prologue by Jack A. Mapanje
Parable Of My Renault 4 Driver by Jack A. Mapanje
My Mother's Poem by Micere Githae Mugo
A Question To Opposition Leaders by Micere Githae Mugo
We Will Rise And Build A Nation; In Defiance Of Neocolonial Dictators by Micere Githae Mugo
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (August 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810113929
• ISBN-13: 978-0810113923
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)