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Sarah describes prejudice experienced by anglophone Cameroonians in I too sing Cameroon.

Euphrase Kezilahabi reads his poem Floods

Helda Marie reads Lamentations from Paradise

Lindelwa Xingwana describes the Mountain Kingdom and reads Let it be known

Jack Mapanje mocks African rulers in his poem When This Carnival Finally Closes

Umar Timol explores the paradoxical nature of island life in his poem Island

Sarah Thembile Mkhonza desribes praise poetry and reads Swaziland, I Witnessed You

Sonia Sultuane, a Muslim poet, discusses identity in her poem African

Emmanuel Hitilasha describes his native village and reads African Way

Cheela Chilala talks about the poetry tradition in Zambia and reads Rear View Mirror

Michaella Rugwizangoga reads Colors, twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide

Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva reads her poem Lake Nalubaale

Poet and journalist Tolu Ogunlesi reads Abeokuta, a childhood recollection

Syl talks about the history of Sierra Leone and reads, 'The Colour of Stones'.

Toni Stuart, a performance poet from Cape Town, reads ‘#34breestreet’

Alexander reads his poem 'Someone in Africa Loves You'

Adjei reads 'For the Mountains' and talks about his home city of Kumasi in Ashanti.

TJ Dema from Botswana is a performance poet and reads 'Boikanyo'