ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). Paramita Routh Roy has an MA in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. Her research interests include African Literature with special emphasis on Women's Writings, Black Feminism, Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonialism.

• EDITORIAL ARTICLEOral and Written African Poetry and Poetics - ERNEST EMENYONU ARTICLESA New Frontier for African Heroic Saga: The Sahara Testaments by Tade Ipadeola - KOFI ANYIDOHO Nigeria's Insta Poetry: Cultivating Inward, Ideological Activism, Revitalizing African Orality and Re-defining the Art of Poetry - OLUWAFUMILAYO AKINPELU A New Direction in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: The Pandemic Poems of Tanure Ojaide and Kola Eke - OGAGA OKUYADE & EDAFE MUKOROHistory and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun's 'Nomad' - IQUO DIANA ABASIVoice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism: T.S. Eliot and Kofi Anyidoho from the Perspectives of Posthumanism and Post-Deconstruction - MILENA VLADIĆ JOVANOVPersonal Reflections on Niyi Osundare, Oríkì Praise Tradition, and the Journey Motif in: If Only the Road Could Talk - ADETAYO ALABI Lost and Gained in Translation: Navigating the Contours of Kofi Anyidoho's Bilingual Poetry - MAWULI ADJEIPoetry and Performance: The Spoken Word Poetry as a Reincarnation of African Oral literary Tradition - PARAMITA ROUTH ROY INTERVIEWS ALT Interview with Prof. Kofi Anyidoho - Scholar, Critic, & Award-winning Poet - ERNEST EMENYONU , CHIJI AKOMA, AKACHI EZEIGBO, OBI NWAKANMA, ROSE SACKEYFIO, CHINYERE EZEKWESILI, AND IQUO DIANA ABASIInterview With Kwame Dawes - KADIJA GEORGE(Re)echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano - ADEWUYI AREMU TRIBUTESAma Ata Aidoo: Ghana's Literary Treasure: A Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1940 - May 31, 2023) - ROSE A. SACKEYFIOI Mourn Ama Ata Aidoo, the Author of 'A Woman must be Foolish for a Marriage to Work, though a bad Marriage Destroys the Soul'. A Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1940 - May 31, 2023) - ALEXANDER OPICHO LITERARY SUPPLEMENTTHREE POEMS'A Memorial for KAMAU BRATHWAITE An Africa - AfricaDiaspora Dialogue', 'For Willie Keorapetse Kgositsile', 'A Song for Nyidevu' - KOFI ANYIDOHO 'From Freedom to Free Doom' (Poem) - ADEMOLA ADESOLA'To The Memory Of Aunty Toriomo' (Poem) - RACHEL OLUWAFISAYO ALUKO'I Swallow Fufu' (Poem) - JEROME MASAMAKA TWO POEMS'No Door, No Roof', 'Bowls for Alms' - MARINUS YONG'No peace', 'thE bEst tEachEr' - VICTOR TEMITOPE ALABI 'As I Watched Her Dying' (Poem) - ERNEST EMENYONU'The Mysterious Examination Paper' (Short Story) - IFEOMA OKOYE'The Ignored' (Short Story) - MATRIDA PHIRIREVIEWSSalami-Agunloye (ed), Retelling History: Restaging African Women in Drama and Film - CAROLYN NUR WISTRANDChika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter - ROSE SACKEYFIOỌmófọlábọ̀, Àjàyí Ṣóyinká and Naana Banyiwa Horne (eds.), IMMIGRANT VOICES IN SHORT STORIES: Health and Wellbeing of African Immigrants in Transnational and Transformative Encounters & Spaces - ELIZABETH ONOGWUYaw Agawu-kakraba, The Restless Crucible - NONYE AHUMIBEKofi Anyidoho, SeedTIME - MAWULI ADJEIIsidore Diala, The Truce - IRENE ISOKEN AGUNLOYEIrene Isoken Agunloye, Disposable Womb - INIOBONG UKO