" should be required reading for the Africanists among historians and political scientists as a vital window into indigenous concerns and nonconcerns."—Chris Waters, "This anthology reverberates with a diversity of styles, themes, and ideologies that have made a conscious break with Africa's stagnant colonial literary heritage. Carving out its own distinctive niche, the emergent poetry is a revealing blend of individuality and indigenous elements of the oral tradition."—Edward Erazo, "These forward-looking and energetic poems reveal that new African poets ‘sing of a world reshaped'."—