After decades of working in parallel worlds of sculpture and fiction, Barbara Chase-Riboud is achieving deserved worldwide ...

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With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Tying the knot can lead to personal growth, emotional stability, and a deeper connection with your partner and the world.

Perched high in the northeastern hills of Nigeria, near the Cameroonian border in the Adamawa mountains, the cultural landscape of Sukur reveals itself as a world apart. This exceptional site bears ...

In an age of instant information, true wisdom demands patience, vulnerability, and the courage to embrace uncertainty.

From the theaters of Atlanta and Johannesburg, South Africa, to the poetry circles of Maryland’s Eastern Shore ... a jazz trio” and insisted that every line stand on a tripod of meaning, image and ...

At 45, Almadhoun now has five poetry collections to his name and his ... But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you ...

the meaning of the poem itself—particularly in light of the year she's had. Specifically, the royal couple shared the following lines: On the surface, that's a nice message on its own ...

The poem is an extract from Virgils famous epic The Aeneid, which immediately reveals to the Emperors that Lucius has an education in Latin - which wouldnt be expected of the slaves from Africa.

International aid, meaning external to the African continent ... Here lies Africa's opportunity, the genesis of the new poem. Africa presents enormous structural weaknesses that cripple even ...

I choose this poem because its meaning never quite moves into focus. For all that it gives and all that it reveals, it remains teasingly elusive. The complete text of the poem can be found here.