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Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mo�ambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. About the editors
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  1. Contributor's Bio Notes
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. xxvii-xxxvi
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  1. Introduction/La presentation/Introdução
  2. pp. xxxvii-l
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  1. Part 1: Place, Heritage and Identity
  2. pp. 1-36
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  1. Part 2: Language, Writing, Poetry and Art
  2. pp. 37-50
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  1. Part 3: Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Inspirational, and Individual
  2. pp. 51-84
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  1. Part 4: Illness, Suffering and Healing
  2. pp. 85-108
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  1. Part 5: Memories, Nature and Environmentalism
  2. pp. 109-124
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  1. Part 6: Colonialism, Corruption, Free Speech, Misgovernance, War and Strife
  2. pp. 125-164
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  1. Part 7: Tribute, Dedication and Women Rights
  2. pp. 165-186
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  1. Part 8: Postmodernism, Family, Home and love
  2. pp. 187-214
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  1. Part 9: Translations from other African Languages
  2. pp. 215-232
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  1. Part 10: Portuguese Poems
  2. pp. 233-324
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  1. Part 11: French Poems
  2. pp. 325-334
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  1. Part 12: Best "New" African Poets 2015 Collaborations
  2. pp. 335-348
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  1. Part 13: Best "New" African Poets 2015 Reviews And Poetics
  2. pp. 349-384
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  1. Back Cover
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