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In the Inferno is part of the continuum starting from the poetry collection Under the Steel Yoke right through to the collection entitled Along the Way. The out of control veld fire is raging in homes and threatens to devour whole nations. The simple yet incisive poems address issues such as corruption, misrule, tyranny and despotism. Some of the poems address the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. The turmoil in the DRC also receives attention. The poems would be a damp squib if the writer did not address the Mugabe legacy and its impact on this country, Zimbabwe, which the late President of Tanzania Julius Mwalimu Nyerere called 'a jewel? The poet takes a keen interest in world events but does not allow this to overshadow what he observes daily in his country of birth, Zimbabwe.

Ethiopian Aliens, being my first anthology to be published, is a book based on African integrity, origins, value, culture and also love. It was inspired by a lot of different emotions on different levels, different times. After doing a little digging I have always been a fan of our own African history and as I went through searching I also noticed that Africans have always been a subject to being inferior to other races and considered Aliens which I later discovered that to some extent we have accepted as the norm. We became subject to wanting to look more like the other races. Though this book is not based on racism, it's just to enlighten and brings out the beauty in being whatever skin colour. As you will notice I do speak on a lot of issues that affect us as a people. Most of these pieces were written in-between the years 2018 to 2023; It is a compilation of what transpired in between those years, some being written from my own experiences.- Clesirdia Nzorozwa

This collection contains poems of resistance to tyranny and human cruelty. Most suffering arises from human cruelty, in comparison to wild animals and natural disasters. This collection asserts the value of people and nature against adversaries such as greed, malevolent complicity, religious and racial bigotry. The triumph of love is what this collection expounds and puts afore.

She ran to the kitchen and grabbed a poker that was lying near the wood and coal stove and brandished it in the air. "Leave my Mama at once or I'll jab this in your stomach!" She looked so fearsome that Jordan let go of his burden and faced his irate little girl, the apple of his monstrous heart. In that moment the devil that lived in him manifested in his little girl. She was prepared to kill him. He saw it in her eyes.Daddy, Please Don't Kill My Mama is about home-brewed human suffering: emotional, psychological, physical torture. This is a fictional story about what the abused family suffers - all based on real life experiences the author has heard of in her many years of teaching school and her just being a person who hears of things and lived through domestic violence.

What first suggested itself to me was, Jackbooted. I was almost accepting the aptness of this when I remembered the often used metaphor of Dr Tunji Braithwait's cockroaches and rats. And why not! The collected stories are all about the roaches and rats. The alliterative phrase Restless Ruin alighted on my mind from Professor Femi Osofisan's play titled The Restless Run of the Locusts. Borrowing and combining the distilled thoughts of these intellectual giants, I present - and you have it in your hand - The Restless Run and Ruin of the Roaches and Rats.McLayode, a retired educationist of more than three decades, attended Imade College, Owo, studied Physics with Electronics at The Polytechnic, Ibadan and Biomedical Engineering Technology at the University of Lagos College of Medicine, Lagos, all in the Southwest of Nigeria. Ever intrigued by fresh use of the Eternal creative Word, he loves to describe himself as one who expresses the Celestial in the Terrestrial.

Methuli Singa is excited about his latest transition, from being a bachelor-about-town to finally owing the title of a married man. He's just about ready to start a family. Little does he know that his so-called wife is possessed with a deadly spirit of witchcraft that will brutally manifest and terrorize his family. It is a time frozen with horror and pain as the wicked spirit ruthlessly catapults them into a journey of death, misery, and suffering.

This book is testimony to the Ambazonia Project, which must come to fruition. Because its architects mean business and have a good liberation strategy and a sensible roadmap for realizing it. The availability of money is obviously a great drawback. But it is here delineated that finances alone cannot be enough to bring freedom to a people. Sapient, dedicated, farsighted, and patriotic leadership is topmost. Ambazonia is blessed to have these requisite qualities in the AWOL Leadership, aka Ayabacholization; thus, making an independent Ambazonia unstoppable. The social media chaos and numerous traitors can only aid in delaying it, they can never stop it.

'Broken maps, made from stories of displacement and refugee camps, stories of depression, of people learning to live with sound of gunshots today find their space within the broken maps, all living with broken lives. This to me is the scene the poet deliberately calls broken maps and one can go beyond boundaries to meet people whose lives mingle in what they strongly reject from their once brothers, war. Here the poet uses Poetry as a device to relieving this people from anxiety and depression. And it's here one can relax and grab the collection and enjoy the flow of every piece?- Alphonso Cikedi

The three Ps of art: Poetry, Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet, what constitute a poem, art, art forms, content, and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems, 40 paintings, 7 essays, 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God, and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God and has a life of its own is a god, the poet here becomes a god. He is a god in the form of Adam who is beholden to the earth. He knows there is no heaven for him, so through poetry he creates a heaven for him and his readers using words, images, metaphors, light, lines, diagrams, circles, space, photography...

After successfully rebelling against human oppressors at Manor Farm, hoping to create a society where all Farm animals are equal, the animals revel in a short lived utopia. Ultimately, the new ruling class of pigs become dictatorial and even more oppressive than human beings betraying the revolution fought under the banner of ushering in Animalism.Panuma yakutamfya umusambashi Jones uwaleshititikisha pebala, inama shalitampa ukuitungulula ishine sheka. Panuma yakutaasha, shayenekele ukwikala mubuntungwa nomulinganya. Nomba panuma shasangile ukuti inkumba shalitampa ukulanga ubunkalwe nabukaitemwe ubushapusene no musambashi Jones uwo shatamfishe. Umulinganya panama tapali kanofye ukutekwa bulukubuluku ukwabipishepo ukucila nelyo shaletungululwa na bantu. Ici citabo icalembelwe nakalemba umungeleshi George Orwell mu mwaka wa 1945 kuti mwacipashanya ku mitekele ukuli konshe pacalo ukulanga ifyo amaka yakuteka yatwala kumutitikisha.

Cognitive dissonance is a historical amnesia caused by the falsification of history, epistemicides and cultural genocides, manifests in forms of inferiority complex, self-hate, and self-alienation of the black people and the sense of superiority as natural to the white race. It manifests in dichotomy, affects both white race and black people, it can be called coloniality of being. Therefore this situation led to racism, exploitations, political nihilism, exploitation of woman, oppression of the margins therefore the need to confront cognitive dissonance. Confronting is the first step, which explains the realisation of the effects of the subjects and then deconstructs it, hence the need to confront and deconstruct cognitive dissonance. But the journey should not end there, but should create the templates of peaceful post-coloniality.

Step into the evocative world of Formless, a captivating collection of poetry by Raïs Neza Boneza. Through a tapestry of words, Boneza weaves a profound exploration of life's intricate beauty and complexity. From the rhythmic pulse of 'Tunefulness' to the reflective depths of 'Verses of the Soul; each poem in this collection invites the reader on a journey of introspection and discovery. Formless transcends boundaries, blending vivid imagery and raw emotion to capture the human experience in its myriad forms. This collection is not just a book of poems; it's a gateway to a world where every emotion is palpable, and every verse resonates with a truth that is both personal and universal. Perfect for lovers of thoughtful, soul-stirring poetry, Formless is a testament to the power of words to connect, heal, and inspire.

From 2015 to 2023 we have been able to issue out, yearly, an anthology of Africa poets, through 9 years of publishing this beautiful anthology of the best contemporary African poets and in the process we have published and archived over 1000 African poets. And this year without fail we offer you Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology which comprises several dozens of African poets from the Portuguese, English and French speaking African countries. We expect the anthology to continue into another decade but also to seed into other forms of poetic expressions starting from next year. We intend to work on Best New African Poets International Festival of the Arts, an event that will bring together all these poets we have been able to publish the last 9 years to showcase their talent in a week of festivities in Harare, Zimbabwe. This year's anthology has poems that cover the usual gamut of issues: love, unrequited feelings, relationships, death, poetry making, politics, and we were excited to see Mashigo tackling the ongoing Israel/Hamas war, and the ill-treatment of the Palestinian people for generations under the Israeli government; culture, religion, spirituality, identity, belonging, memory, individuality and all sorts of other existential dilemmas that the young African poets deal with day to day.

The Epistle of Udume follows Udume's journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in some recognizable Nigerian spaces, Udume is crucial to the novel where the other characters' experience stems from his connection to them. Udume's positioning as the narrator in the novel makes him central to its explorations of the themes that are connected to the happenings in Nigeria. Once again through this novel, Solomon Awuzie masterly weds his artistic vision in a creative matrimony.

Mother's Kitchen and Other Places is a collection of poems reflecting on life's memorable moments from growing up in the intertwining entanglements of life in South Africa to a contemplation of emotions in love, memories, hardships of domestic violence and grief. It magnifies ordinary day to day trivial moments, captured in words, and seeks hope in elements of nature as the human life journeys through the human condition in search of purpose.

Tommy and Tina are twins. They have an older brother and sister, Peter and Peggy who dote on them. The twins have reached the age where they are very curious and explore whatever comes their way. The decision to place them in day care is taken by the whole family. The twins develop fast much to the surprise of their parents. Their escapades are sometimes worrisome.

In 'The Curse' we see the existential dilemmas that the characters have to deal with in their day to day life on hard planet earth. These recurring dilemmas become the leitmotiv of the whole collection. The poet uses literary figures and philosophical terms that connect with past literature like Sisyphus, Nirvana, quixotic, The Pied Piper, Spartans, Jim Crow etc. in his poems to show us the situations his characters are going through, likening them to these past literary figures and their stories. In 'Coming of Age', the poem that informs this collection and titular to the collection, he talks of the ghetto being, his journey as he tried to break the cycle of poverty and vault himself out of the ghetto and the political situation that weighs heavily on this being. How this being comes of age in the scourge of this time. This is an important and well assembled beautiful collection of poetry of the Zimbabwean struggle.

FRONTIERS: WILD, SEMI-WILD, HUMAN.... A photographic Novel, is a book of photographs I have taken or worked on over a period of 6 years from 2012 to 2017. I love the concept of writing a novel through photography and that's why I called this book of photographs a photographic novel, for there is a strong narrative dimension in these photographs that creates visual literature. And this narrative link, for a good part, points to the content in the images. They are three countries where I took these photos from; Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa, three neighbours who share borders, languages, cultures, fauna, flora, etc, joined by a bond as old as creation, itself. I decided to work from the wild, to the semi wild, to human, exploring frontiers in these worlds, juxtaposing these worlds, one against the other or all three together in a photo, sometimes obsessively focusing on a single spot, repetitively creating different story strands from that one place, and then combine photography with other visual art medias like painting and drawing thus creating entirely different artworks. It is the essence of my work, to operate at the limit between natural and human landscapes, reality and fiction, nature and humanity, by bestowing an actual dimension to the utopian. The photographs are a celebration of this.¿Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multidisciplinary artist, editor, publisher and producer with 26 individual books and over 27 curated anthologies published in the US, Northern Ireland, UK, Cameroon and Zimbabwe. He has 3 music albums playing in at least 18 radio stations in the US, Canada, UK, France, Israel, Brazil and Australia and hundreds of paintings and drawings, thousands of photographs, some exhibited, published and sold. His art pieces have appeared in over 400 journals in over 35 countries and his books and writing are translated into at least 11 languages.

Despite the current economic and political situation in our country, poets, writers, artists, and other creatives have defied the odds and continued to churn their works and submit to produce this marvelous anthology. This eighth installment continues the tradition of giving new writers the platform to shine and to the seasoned writers, a shebeen to meet again and prolong the tradition. We hope you continue to read and follon the Zimbolicious anthology series.

Peace of the Senses: How to Fight the FAGS is a collection of interlinked photographs that deals with the human story in several existential perspectives, especially how we find joy and happiness in difficult circumstances in life. Thus the images in this book celebrate human life, makes funny of difficult situations we go through. There is an element of the comedian in the photos, and it sometimes would create huge howls of laughter, sometimes chuckles and smiles. We go with the adage laughter is the best medicine in this work, and I believe this creates the peace of the senses, as the title presupposes. A set of common themes and philosophical questions permeates the book, bringing the narrative together as an author's self-interrogation through invented others. Detecting the thematic threads whilst paying attention to the differences requires one to experience the book both horizontally and vertically, following a narrative that seems as much widening as deepening.

Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.

"Kum ke ingaba ithetha ukuthini yonke le ntshwaqane? Njengoko imibhalo nge mibhalo endiyikhuphe ngesi Ngesi ibhentsisile, kuye kwakhona ukulahleka okuthile apha kulo mntu undim. Ngenxa yezi zathu ezi thile endizibaluleyo kuma qonga nga maqonga, zizathu endingenalo ixesha loku ngena kuzo ngoku, ndiye ndafuna ukubunikela umva ubuntu nobu Afrika bam. Le mibongo ke, njenge ziyaca, iye yandi rhintyela ngoku mandla. Ndine mincili egqithileyo ke ukubeka lembiza yo mxoxozi phambi kwenu. Ndine themba lokuba omnye nomnye uya kuzuza lukhulu.""What does this all mean to me? As different English genres that I have released through different platforms attest, there has been an element of losing my essence and core of humanity. As a direct result of a multitude of reasons that I have entertained through the above-mentioned platforms, the latter of which I do not have the luxury of time to entertain at the present moment, I found myself on the verge of turning my back to my humanity and African-ness. Like Xhosa traditional necklaces, these poems insnared my being in such scrupulous ways. I am very much happy to present this mix masala pot to you. I am trusting that each and everyone of you will get something of much value."

This collection has 60 poems that tackle spirituality from different perspectives as they also tackle day- to-day activities of the protagonists, from love, truth and lies, what is right or wrong, politics, death, existence, growing up stories, memories, gender and sexuality, what beauty is, etc. And in all these poems there is the search for our beginning (where we came from) to find the path to here (where we are) and what this here represents. A conscious thread runs through and weaves these worlds into some form of religion, an individual spirituality.

Chipo lived in the village with her parents. She was a brilliant girl at school and her dream was to become a great farmer when she grows up. This surprised her parents, but they agreed to support their daughter's ambition until she becomes famous in their village.

"A raw and resplendent book, rich in the rigour of reflection. George's poetry is a challenge to the borders of selfhood and the limits of self-expression. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read poetry imagined out of what is close to home, as well as in lands and cultures and traditions very very far." Kiran Bhat (Indian-American novelist, short- story writer, literary critic, translator and poet), author of We of the Forsaken World.South African Abigail George is a blogger, essayist, short story writer, screenwriter, novelist, and poet. She is a poet/writer who believes in the transformative, restorative and heal- ing powers of words. Her latest book is Letter To Petya Dubarova.

Land is ubiquitous but exceptionally precious, no-frills, and one-off for all beings past, present, and future though not all appropriately appreciated for its nonpareil significance and sacredness. Nevertheless, currently, African corrupt, credulous, and closed-minded rulers are blindly and bald-facedly dishing land out in this toxic leasing by enacting another scramble for Africa under a putrid façade of investment, a crime against humanity revolving around coloniality, corruption, and racism. China, India, Petro-rich-with-inarable-land Middle East Countries, and western conglomerates are invading Africa to produce biofuels and food for their home populaces for yet another land and food colonisation. Contemporary land grabs aggravate Africa's food and national in/ security, famishment, and effluence thereof. S/he who cannot feed her/himself is a dangerous laughingstock. This book addresses the crime and proposes what Africa must do to avert self-inflicted wounds resulting from fake and rose gambits like job creation, tax bases, and investment for development. Land is a life giver and is uniquely sacred as such nobody should dish it out or grab it like nobody's business. The cardinal argument is that Africa must enable its people to till the land it is dishing out to produce and export food to those now grabbing its land. This is the only sensible solution any level-headed person can think of and apply.

The collection is made up of poems composed from 1992 to late 2022. The poet sees his writing as a journey and that gives rise to the title Along The Way. Most of the poems were previously published by several magazines and online publications. The poems are organic in the sense that they draw from the poet's experiences and those of fellow human beings. The poet delves into issues in the social, political, economic environment he finds himself in and some poems address issues such as African spirituality, apostasy and other global issues in so far as they affect him and fellow human beings. He does not shy away from speaking truth to power for the betterment of the lives of the ruled. The poet invites you tojoin him on this self-discovery journey.Jabulani Mzinyathi is a poet-thinker born in Gweru, Zimbabwe in September 1965. He is a former teacher, ex-magistrate and is presently a lawyer in private practice. He calls himself a triple P man: poet, prophet and philosopher. Several of his literary works appear in Zimbolicious volumes, BNAP publications, magazines and ezines. Jabulani's past poetry collections are Under The Steel Yoke, Righteous Indignation (Mwanaka Media and Publishing), In The Steel Talons (Footprints Publishing House, Malawi) and a chiShona novel Mumambure (Progressive Publishers, Zimbabwe).

The stories in Finding a Way Home tackle many of the experiences of Zimbabwean people, but mostly life in the last few decades: i.e. life during the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. It also tackles rape and sexual abuse issues, an insight into diseases that are not usually talked about well in Africa, yet they are devastating the continent like AIDS, Malaria, TB; diseases like bipolar, hypertension, cancer. It tackles failure of religious and spiritual beliefs. It delves into early adult coming-of-age stories, love stories in a world in the shadow of the AIDS pandemic, our dire need as humans to want to connect our lives with someone else, especially now in the 21st century and how mostly it is ending in break-ups of relationships and disillusionment. The stories are free of most of the conventions of storytelling. Some stories are like notes, of different people connected to this idea of Finding a way home, talking ... telling their own stories, in their own way. The storyteller also explore storytelling techniques; in having the characters in the stories stamp their own emotions on the page. It is very experimental, challenging and incisive, the stories have the ability to look a subject straight in eyes, without flinching. It is sometimes a fractured narrative with phrases disappearing off the edges, and yet the collection also balances between the exhibit of preciseness use of language and a deeper observation of human behaviour at close range through observing it all like a camera.Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher and owner of Mwanaka Media and Publishing, an editor, mentor, thinker, literary artist, visual artist and musical artist with 25 individual books and at least 25 curated and edited anthologies published in Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Northern Ireland, UK, and USA, 2 music albums released and several dozens of songs; hundreds of paintings, drawings, literary pieces and other artworks curated, produced,exhibited and published in over 400 journals in at least 35 countries worldwide. His work has been translated into over 11 languages. His first chapbook of poetry, Disobedience Poems, is published in the UK.

Everything starts with words! Without words, thoughts can never become a reality. The words, sentences and verses of the poems in this book are the very Strides of Hope. They occupy the gap between our efforts and the accomplishments of our sole desires. The author crafted these poems to provide the kinesis which propels our legs along the long, winding paths to where our hope lies. They are the mental capacitation which stimulates our minds to advocate for a tomorrow that we all wish. In other words, the poems in this book are the catalyst to physical and mental spur towards self-actualisation - towards re-discovery! Strides of Hope is a miscellany of poems that leaves no one behind. Tawanda Chigavazira is an ex-Detective cum Lawyer born and bred around the rustic environs of Zvimba. He is a passionate writer who is comfortable writing both in English and Shona languages. This is his second solo publication following Watsika Rufuse, a Shona thriller, published in 2020.