APBF Launches Saba Box Set at Global Virtual Event

APBF Staff September 22, 2020

On Tuesday, September 8, we celebrated the release of New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), with a virtual reading and launch party event presented by the Center for Fiction in partnership with Poets House.

Ten poets included in this year’s edition joined from around the world to open the event with readings, and a conversation between Dawes and Abani on why they had to make this ambitious and poignant project, moderated by Tjawangwa Dema, followed.

Featured Poets Included:

Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau
Afua Ansong
Fatima Camara
Sadia Hassan
Safia Jama
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
Nadra Mabrouk
Nkateko Masinga
Jamila Osman
Tryphena Yeboah

Viewers logged in from around the world to hear these poems and conversation and to pose questions of their own toward the end. In spite of a few (minor!) technical difficulties streaming sound and video internationally the event was a huge success and a really compelling evening of poetry and global African community. If you missed the event, you can watch it here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/yl8hkbue. Run time’s just over an hour and a half, and there’s not a dull moment!

Huge thanks to all our partners in putting this project on, to everyone who cheered the poets on, and to all our poets and participants (especially those who stayed up late to join the party).