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listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have...

When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign...

Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and is recognised as a key work in his emergence as a major Black poet of...

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the...

Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, widely regarded as one of the leading African writers...

Marcus Wicker is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections: Dear Mothership (2026), Silencer (2017), and Maybe the Saddest Thing (2012), which was selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry...

I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF;...

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Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…

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