The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The poems are arranged by the country of the poet, then by their date of birth. The following sections list the poets included in the collection.

Angola

 * Agostinho Neto
 * António Jacinto
 * Costa Andrade
 * Ngudia Wendel
 * Jofre Rocha
 * Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

Benin (Dahomey)

 * Emile Ologoudou

Cameroun

 * Simon Mpondo
 * Mbella Sonne Dipoko
 * Patrice Kayo

Cape Verde Islands

 * Onésima Silveira

Congo Republic

 * Tchicaya U Tam’si
 * Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
 * Emmanuel Dongala

Côte d'Ivoire

 * Joseph Miezan Bognini
 * Charles Nokan

Gambia

 * Lenrie Peters

Ghana

 * Ellis Ayitey Komey
 * Kwesi Brew
 * Kofi Awoonor
 * Atukwei Okai
 * Kofi Anyidoho

Guinea

 * Ahmed Tidjani Cissé

Kenya

 * Khadambi Asalache
 * Jonathan Kariara
 * Jared Angira

Madagascar

 * Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
 * Flavien Ranaivo

Malawi

 * David Rubadiri
 * Felix Mnthali
 * Jack Mapanje

Mali

 * Yambo Ouologuem

Mauretania

 * Oumar Ba

Mauritius

 * Edouard Maunick

Mozambique

 * José Craveirinha
 * Noémia de Sousa
 * Valente Malangatana
 * Jorge Rebelo

Nigeria

 * Gabriel Okara
 * Christopher Okigbo
 * Wole Soyinka
 * John Pepper Clark
 * Frank Aig-Imoukhuede
 * Okogbuli Wonodi
 * Michael Echeruo
 * Pol N Ndu
 * Onwuchekwa Jemie
 * Aig Higo
 * Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
 * Niyi Osundare
 * Odia Ofeimun
 * Funso Aiyejina

San Tomé

 * Alda do Espirito Santo

Senegal

 * Léopold Sédar Senghor
 * Birago Diop
 * David Diop

Sierra Leone

 * Syl Cheney-Coker

South Africa

 * Dennis Brutus
 * Mazisi Kunene
 * Sipho Sepamla
 * Keorapetse Kgositsile
 * Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
 * Arthur Nortje
 * Mongane Wally Serote

Uganda

 * Okot p'Bitek

Zaire

 * Antoine-Rober Bolamba
 * Mukala Kadima-Nzuji

Zambia

 * Gwendoline Konie