Growing Up with Poetry: An Anthology for Secondary SchoolsDavid Rubadiri Heinemann, 1989 - 112 pages An anthology designed for the enjoyment and instruction of students from junior-secondary school onwards. The poems focus on aspects central to African life and culture: lover, identity, death, village life, separation, power and freedom. Guidance for teachers is included. |
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... poor man Swahili 43 Old Granny Bonus Zimunya 40 Jack Mapanje 41 The beard Proscovia Rwakyaka 42 The lazy man Yoruba 43 The sweetest thing Soussou 44 SEPARATION Before reading questions 46 Letter from a contract worker Antonio Jacinto 47 ...
... poor man Swahili 43 Old Granny Bonus Zimunya 40 Jack Mapanje 41 The beard Proscovia Rwakyaka 42 The lazy man Yoruba 43 The sweetest thing Soussou 44 SEPARATION Before reading questions 46 Letter from a contract worker Antonio Jacinto 47 ...
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Contents
IDENTITY | 11 |
We New World Blacks Grace Nichols | 22 |
Inside my Zulu hut Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali | 36 |
SEPARATION | 45 |
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Africa African child African thunderstorm alliteration aloud Ancestors anthology Armanda Atieno baby become a monkey birth of Shaka boy who died brew at Chitakale Building the nation Bushman Canaan Banana David Diop David Rubadiri David Rubadiri Malawi Death the leveller died at Diepkloof Diepkloof Reformatory discuss European feel flywhisk freedom song Gaborone Gabriel Okara giraffe cannot become Grace Nichols graceful giraffe Grass will grow hair Holding my beads ideas identity images Jack Mapanje Jonathan Kariara language Lawino Liberating love lines Lorna Goodison meaning metaphor mulatta as Penelope Oba of Benin Okot p'Bitek Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali path Paton poetry praise-song questions read the poems Return my mother rhyme rhythm similes sing America Sipho Sepamla Skin-teeth small groups someone sort sounds begin spear story sweet brew tell tradition true minds Uganda verse paragraph village wind woman women words World Blacks write a poem