Poets on the London Underground: Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
The poem “Inside my Zulu Hut” by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali has been featured on the London Underground.
The poem “Inside my Zulu Hut” by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali has been featured on the London Underground.
‘Tin Roof’, by Ghanaian-British poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes, is appearing on London’s ‘tube’ as part of the Poems on the Underground series
Born 100 years apart, two captive West African girls became famous in their day. Each was named for the ship that carried her over the Atlantic.
Poems on the London Undergound feature the work of Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes.
October’s poem is “Bonwire”, on the African Poetry Anthology blog
Boy and his Shadow, from Playtime in Africa(1962) by Efua T. Sutherland and Willis E. Bell.
Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the award-winning author of four books of poetry, a survivor of the Liberian civil war and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University in the United States.