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100 Papers
by Liesl Jobson
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

after troy
by Taban Lo Liyong
Deep South, South Africa

Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner
by Tariro Ndoro
Modjaji Books, South Africa

The Alkalinity of Bottled Water
by Makhosazana Xaba
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

All and Everything
by Kobus Moolman, Shubnum Khan
uHlanga, South Africa

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All the Places
by Musawenkosi Khanyile
uHlanga, South Africa

Amiirkii farxadda ku jirey iyo afar sheeko oo kale
edited by Maxamed Xasan, Rashiid Sheekh Cabdillaahi
Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation) , Somaliland

Ancestors and Other Visitors
by D. Stevenson
University of Namibia Press, Namibia

The Attribute of Poetry
by Elisa Galgut
Modjaji Books, South Africa

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Bare and Breaking
by Karin Schimke
Modjaji Books, South Africa

The Bavino Sermons
by Lesego Rampolokeng
Deep South, South Africa

Bearing Witness
edited by Joyce Ashuntantang, Dibussi Tande
Spears Media Press, Cameroon

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Beautiful Fire
by Joyce Ashuntantang
Spears Media Press, Cameroon

The Beauty I Have Seen
by Tanure Ojaide
Malthouse Press, Nigeria

Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology
edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Nsah Mala
Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe

Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology
edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Daniel da Purificação
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Best "New" African Poets 2017 Anthology
edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Daniel da Purificação
Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe

Best "New" African Poets Anthology 2020
edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Balddine Moussa, Lorna Telma Zita
Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe

Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology
edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Nsah Mala
Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe

BILAKHULU!
by Vonani Bila
Deep South, South Africa

Blind Moon
by Chenjerai Hove
Weaver Press, Zimbabwe

Bluesology and Bofelosophy
by Mphutlane wa Bofelo
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Bomblast or Breakfast?
by J. Obii J. Nwachukwu-Agbada
African Heritage Press, Nigeria

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A Book of Rooms
by Kobus Moolman
Deep South, South Africa

The Book of Unrest
by Nick Mulgrew
uHlanga, South Africa

Botsotso 18: Poetry
edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Bury Me Naked
by Teamhw SbonguJesu
TNG Publishing, South Africa

Coils of Mortal Flesh
by Ba'bila Mutia
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Collected Poems
by Bernard Levinson
Hands-On Books, South Africa

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The Colours of our Flag
by Allan Kolski Horwitz
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Coming of Age
by Farah Gamute
Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation) , Somaliland

The Coroner's Wife
by Joan Hambidge
Dryad Press, South Africa

Corpses of Unity
edited by Nsah Mala, Mbizo Chirasha
Vita Books, Kenya

Cosmonauts do it in Heaven
by Keith Gottschalk
Hands-On Books, South Africa

Crossroads of Dreams
by Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla, MD Mbutoh
Spears Media Press, Cameroon

Days
by Niyi Osundare
HEBN Publishers, Nigeria

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The Defence of Lawino
by Okot p'Bitek, Taban Lo Liyong
Fountain Publishers, Uganda

Dirty Washing
edited by Botsotso
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Diwani ya Tuzo ya Ushairi ya Ebrahim Hussein
by Juzuu la Pili
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania

Echoes from the Mountain
by Mazisi Kunene edited by Dike Okoro
Malthouse Press, Nigeria

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Everything Is A Deathly Flower
by Maneo Mohale
uHlanga, South Africa

feeling e feio
by Danai Mupotsa
Editora Trinta Zero Nove, Moçambique

Foundling's Island
by P.R. Anderson
uHlanga Press, South Africa

Green Rape
by Peter W. Vakunta
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

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A History of Disappearance
by Sarah Lubala
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Homage
by Charlotte Hill O'Neal
African Perspectives, South Africa

Home is Where the Mic Is
edited by Mandi Poefficient Vundla, Allan Kolski Horwitz
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Ice Cream Headache in my Bone
by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Modjaji Books, South Africa

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Ilifa
by Athambile Masola
uHlanga, South Africa

An Illuminated Darkness
by Jacques Coetzee
uHlanga, South Africa

Imbewu Yesini
edited by Javier Perez, Koleka Putuma
uHlanga, South Africa

In A Free State
by P.R. Anderson
uHlanga Press, South Africa

In Praise of Hotel Rooms
by Fiona Zerbst
Dryad Press, South Africa

In the Heat of Shadows
edited by Denis Hirson
Deep South, South Africa

Inhabiting Love
by Abu Bakr Solomons
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Isabella Motadinyane
by Isabella Motadinyane
Deep South, South Africa

Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations
by Kopano Maroga
uHlanga, South Africa

Just a Bend
by Ekpe Inyang
Spears Media Press, Cameroon

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KwaNobuhle Overcast
by Ayanda Billie
Deep South, South Africa

Lament for Kofifi Macu
by Angifi Dladla
Deep South, South Africa

Landscapes of Light and Loss
by Stephen Symons
Dryad Press, South Africa

Liminal
by Douglas Reid Skinner
uHlanga Press, South Africa

Liquid Bones
by Sarah Godsell
Impepho Press, South Africa

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Loud and Yellow Laughter
by Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

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Machozi Yamenishiya
by Mohammed Khelef Ghassani
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania

Malibongwe
edited by Sono Molefe
uHlanga, South Africa

Matric Rage
by Genna Gardini
uHlanga Press, South Africa

Mayibuye: 25 Years of Democracy in South Africa
by Lawrence Mduduzi Ndlovu
African Perspectives, South Africa

Milk Fever
by Megan Ross
uHlanga Press, South Africa

Moonsongs
by Niyi Osundare
Spectrum Books, Nigeria

The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling
by Tony Voss
Crane River, South Africa

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Mwanangu Rudi Nyumbani
by Dotto Rangimoto
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania

My heart in your hands
edited by Naitsikile Iizyenda, Jill Kinahan
University of Namibia Press, Namibia

My Mother's Laughter
by Chris van Wyk
Deep South, South Africa

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a naked bone
by Mangaliso Buzani
Deep South, South Africa

Narrow Escapes
by Tanure Ojaide
Spears Media Press, Cameroon

Nest of Stones
by Wanjohi wa Makokha
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

No Turning Back
by Dibussi Tande
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Now the World Takes These Breaths
by Joan Metelerkamp
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Não vás tão docilmente
by Futhi Ntshingila
Editora Trinta Zero Nove, Moçambique

O Suburbia
by John Eppel
Weaver Press, Zimbabwe

On Days Such as This
by Gail Dendy
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

The Only Magic We Know
edited by Marike Beyers
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Otherwise Occupied
by Sally Ann Murray
Dryad Press, South Africa

PANDEMIX
by Rosabelle Boswell
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Peach Country
by Nondwe Mpuma
uHlanga, South Africa

Praise Song for The Land
by Kofi Anyidoho
Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana

The Promise of Memory
by Michael Weeder
African Perspectives, South Africa

Red Cotton
by Vangile Gantsho
Impepho Press, South Africa

Rough Music
by Ari Sitas
Deep South, South Africa

Rumblin'
by Sihle Ntuli
uHlanga, South Africa

Saving Water
by Allan Kolski Horwitz
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Scrim
by Haidee Kotze
Deep South, South Africa

Secret Keeper
by Kerry Hammerton
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Serurubele
by Katleho Kano Shoro
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Shapes, Shades and Faces
by Moferefere Lekorotsoana
African Perspectives, South Africa

Shark
by Francine Simon
uHlanga, South Africa

Skeptical Erections
by Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta
Deep South, South Africa

So At One With You
edited by W.N. Herbert, Said Jama Hussein
Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation) , Somaliland

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Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
by Okot p'Bitek
East African Educational Publishers, Kenya

Songs of Myself: Quartet
by Tanure Ojaide
Kraft Books, Nigeria

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Songs of the Marketplace
by Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare, Nigeria

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Songs of the Season
by Niyi Osundare
HEBN Publishers, Nigeria

Soulfire Experience
by Siphiwe ka Ngwenya
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Still Further
by C.J. Driver
uHlanga, South Africa

Sunrise Poison
by Phillip Zhuwao
Deep South, South Africa

Surviving Loss
by Busisiwe Mahlangu
Impepho Press, South Africa

The Tale of the Harmattan
by Tanure Ojaide
Kraft Books, Nigeria

That kind of door
by Alan Finlay
Deep South, South Africa

These Hands
by Makhosazana Xaba
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Things Left Unsaid
by Rosabelle Boswell
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon

Transcontinental Delay
by Simon van Schalkwyk
Dryad Press, South Africa

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The Turtle Dove Told Me
by Thandi Slipen
Modjaji Books, South Africa

Two Zulu Poets: Mazisi Kunene and BW Vilakazi
by Dike Okoro
Cissus World Press, USA

Unam Wena
by Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana
uHlanga, South Africa

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An Unobtrusive Vice
by Tony Ullyatt
Dryad Press, South Africa

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Waiting Laughters
by Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare, Nigeria

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Walking, Falling
by Kelwyn Sole
Deep South, South Africa

We Have Crossed Many Rivers
edited by Dike Okoro
Malthouse Press, Nigeria

We Jive Like This
edited by Botsotso
Botsotso Publishing , South Africa

Where War Was
by Charles Cantalupo
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania

Wondering and Wandering of Hearts
edited by Susan N. Kigul, Hilda Twongyeirwe
Femrite Publications, Uganda

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Yellow Shade
by Dimakatso Sedite
Deep South, South Africa

Zikr
by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee
uHlanga Press, South Africa

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