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Into Africa

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A celebration of African poets and poetry, introduced by Ato Quayson. Absence from home links the three West African poets who feature in this programme, though theirwork explores avarietyofthemes. Abena Busia 's personal and intimate poems are tinged with the sadness of her exile from Ghana. Magic realist Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker is currently the first resident of the Las Vegas City of Asylum, a project to support exiled writers; and Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka has been forced to spend long years away from his home country,
Nigeria. He reads from his forthcoming collection Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known.

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Introduced By:
Ato Quayson.
Unknown:
Abena Busia
Unknown:
Syl Cheney-Coker
Unknown:
Wole Soyinka
Source: Radio Times

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