Camille T. Dungy, the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, calls her book a first of its kind. The nearly 200 poems in the anthology reach back to the mid ...

Grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins and bayou cuisine show up in many of Young's own poems. He writes of the healing power of food after loss, a tradition that he knows best from the African ...

She challenges the idea that there is only one way of being South African, and urges everyone to take pride in who they are. Sage Hasson, of Nigeria, emphasises unity and focus in this poem. Maybe we ...