New Poets of West Africa

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
In 1995, he publishes his first anthology of African poetry entitled New Poets of West Africa. It is an Anthology of 156 pages. There are 7 female poets among 48 poets. One discovers poets from 15 West African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Cameroun, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. They all belong to the third generation of African poets of the seventies and eighties.