New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set (Kumi Na Moja)

The limited-edition boxset series is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.

The ten poets included in this box set are: Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, Hauwa Saleh Abubakar, Aria Deemie, Michael Imossan, Rahma Jimoh, Roseline Mgbodichinma, Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, Leano Debra Ranko, Timi Sanni, and Tjizembua Tjikuzu.

“Editors Dawes and Abani introduce readers to eleven emerging African poets with distinctive perspectives in this twelve-piece, limited-edition box set. Sponsored by the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), this project has been in production since 2014.”

Ebony

“The African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary projects, presenting to a wide audience the work of fresh and promising poets in the continent and its diaspora.”

Open Country Magazine