- Paperback
- Published: 3/2/27
- IBSN: 9781636143521
- Genre: Poetry
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Kumi Na Mbili: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
This 13 piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of twelve new African poets.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before March 2, 2027.
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Forthcoming: 3/2/27
What people are saying…
“Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.”
—New York Times Magazine
“The African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary projects, presenting to a wide audience the work of fresh and promising poets in the continent and its diaspora.”
—Open Country Mag
Description
The limited edition box set is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.
The twelve poets included in this box set are: Abduljalal Musa Aliyu, Feyisayo Aluko, Ameen Animashaun, .CHISARAOKWU., Damilola Omotoyinbo, I Echo, Ehiorobo Osazuwa Derek, Ridwan Fasasi, Maryam Bukar Hassan, Prosper Ifeanyi, Annie Kay, Afua Awo Twumwa.
- Subjects: Black Interest, Forthcoming, New Releases, Poetry
Book Details
Authors
KWAME DAWES is the Ghana-born, award-winning author of twenty-two books of poetry—including Sturge Town from W.W. Norton—and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has won Pushcart prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2019 awardee of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series—the latest of which is Kumi Na Mbili: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set. He currently teaches at Brown University.
CHRIS ABANI, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award. He is the editor of Lagos Noir and the coeditor of Kumi Na Mbili: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set.