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).

EDITORIAL ARTICLE
Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics - ERNEST EMENYONU

ARTICLES
A 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 MUKORO
History and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun's 'Nomad' - IQUO DIANA ABASI
Voice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism: T.S. Eliot and Kofi Anyidoho from the Perspectives of Posthumanism and Post-Deconstruction - MILENA VLADIĆ JOVANOV
Personal 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 ADJEI
Poetry 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 ABASI
Interview With Kwame Dawes - KADIJA GEORGE
(Re)echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano - ADEWUYI AREMU

TRIBUTES
Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana's Literary Treasure: A Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1940 - May 31, 2023) - ROSE A. SACKEYFIO
I 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 SUPPLEMENT
THREE 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 PHIRI

REVIEWS
Salami-Agunloye (ed), Retelling History: Restaging African Women in Drama and Film - CAROLYN NUR WISTRAND
Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter - ROSE SACKEYFIO
Ọmófọlábọ̀, 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 ONOGWU
Yaw Agawu-kakraba, The Restless Crucible - NONYE AHUMIBE
Kofi Anyidoho, SeedTIME - MAWULI ADJEI
Isidore Diala, The Truce - IRENE ISOKEN AGUNLOYE
Irene Isoken Agunloye, Disposable Womb - INIOBONG UKO