Seasons of Harvest: Essays on the Literatures of Lusophone Africa

Literature & Fiction

Donald Burness

Niyi Afolabi

History & Criticism

Africa World Pr

Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São Tomé-Príncipe include Niyi Osundare, Gerald Moser, Inocencia Mata, Gregory McNab, Jared Banks, Donald Burness, Niyi Afolabi, and George Alao. 
Focusing on their place within a larger context of unheard voices of African experience, these essays are written by a wide range of authors such as Alda Lara, Orlando de Albuquergue, Orlando Mendes, Alda do Espirito Santo, Sum Marky, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Lina Magaia, Paulina Chiziane, Lilia Momplie, Adelina da Silva, and young cultural producers like Xiphefo and Prométhée. They introduce the general reader and specialists alike to compelling issues of love, gender, race, class, culture, colonialism, oppression, national identity, narrative violence, and liberation. Here is an invigorating attempt to rescue silenced voices and return them to the visible level of the long drums and canons of the African literary festival.

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa (African Histories and Modernities)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Cosmic Whispers weaves together the memories of two intimate characters whose divine paths magically crossed on the Brazilian side of the Atlantic. Not only did these two characters cross paths, but two countries also collided: Brazil and Nigeria. Journeys to other lands and encounters with the magic of transcendent beauty despite the sting of death open new vistas of life. Reality and fantasy often collide through mystical fragments and protracted extensions of multivalent twilights. Dislocations and reencounters ultimately surrender to vibrant whispers. For we are whisperers. Yes, we are all whisperers seeking essences of our own mysterious inner harvests. ****************************************** In the hands of an accomplished wordsmith, tragedy becomes threnodic beauty and prose takes on the affective luster of poetry. Afolabi s love-song reconstitutes dreams and leaves the reader, not in the transitional abyss, but on the shores of hope. He invites us to a contemplative feast serving dream, love, and fate as vectors of the human condition. In sharing Lucia with us in munificent and incandescent language, Afolabi guarantees her transcendence. Lucia s whispered message rings loud: seize the dream; sound the drum of passion. In its creative resistance against social death, Cosmic Whispers reminds us of Fred Moten s Stolen Life. Afolabi s resounding paean to love will stay with us for a long time. Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English, University of Alabama Afolabi has given us a powerful and fascinating narration of youthful passage into adulthood that reminds one of Ayi Kwei Armah s Two Thousand Seasons. Cosmic Whispers reads like a coping strategy for a lover in deep grief mediated by this worthy celebration of a woman for all seasons. A powerful tale of overcoming the odds of life through genuine love and mutual dedication. Niyi Coker, Professor and Director, San Diego State University

Cosmic Whispers

Africa World Press, Inc.

The Afro-Brazilian Mind: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism

Africa Research and Publications

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