Description |
431 pages : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Africa of my grandmother's singing : curving rhythms / Wilfred Cartey -- Proverbs -- Negritude. |
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The blacks ; from Tell Freedom / Peter Abrahams -- The dancer / Assoi Adiko -- Anansi's fishing expedition / Anonymous -- Song of a mother to her first-born / Anonymous -- Justice / Anonymous -- Talk / Anonymous -- How Hawk learned of the shallow hearts of men / Anonymous -- How the world changed / Anonymous -- Song of the poor man / Anonymous -- The talking skull / Anonymous -- Four tales from Togoland. The eye of the giant ; The singing cloak ; The gourd full of wisdom ; The hunter who hunts no more / Anonymous -- The lonely soul / R.E.G. Armattoe -- Funeral of a whale / J. Benibengor Blay -- Night rain ; Girl bathing / J.P. Clark -- Men of all continents / Bernard Dadié -- Truth and falsehood ; The wages of good ; Forefathers / Birago Diop -- Africa ; Listen comrades ; He who has lost all ; Your presence ; Defiance against force / David Diop -- The feud / R. Sarif Easmon -- Ritual murder ; The law of the grazing fields / C.O.D. Ekwensi -- The forest of the Lord / D.O. Fagunwa -- Aboard an African train / Alfred Hutchinson -- Dream of the black mother / Kalungano -- The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta -- from The African child / Camara Laye -- Life in our village / Matei Markwei -- Home-coming son / Tsegaye Gabre Medhen -- The dignity of begging / William Modisane -- The master of Doornvlei / Ezekiel Mphahlele -- Life is sweet at Kumansenu / Abioseh Nicol -- Poem of the conscripted warrior / Rui Nogar -- The rain came / Grace A. Ogot -- Homecoming ; Parachute / Lenrie Peters -- African song ; No room at solitaire / Richard Rive -- Stanley meets Mutesa / James D. Rubadiri -- The pigeon-hole ; Conflict / Mabel Segun -- Prayer to the masks ; Night of Sine ; Be not amazed / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Fado singer ; Season ; I think it rains / Wole Soyinka -- Edufa / Efua T. Sutherland -- Message to Mputu Antoinette, girl of the bush, friend of my childhood / Tshakatumba -- Animal that died but his eyes still alive ; Don't pay bad for bad / Amos Tutuola. |
Subject |
African literature -- Translations into English.
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English literature -- Translations from African.
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African literature (English)
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Added Author |
O'Neal, Robert, 1914- compilor.
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McDonnell, Helen M., compilor.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, James Edwin, 1920- Black African voices. [Glenview, Ill.] Scott, Foresman [c1970] (OCoLC)654626832 |
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