We also see another example of a poetic trend found in both oral and written literature – that of the ‘drinking song’ – which in this case is also a praise song in oral poetry just like ...

In Yoruba, praise poems are called oriki; in isiZulu ... and middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya are explicit examples of the challenges that particularly black women are ...

These moving words are in the latest offering by South Africa’s poet laureate, Mongane Wally Serote, in his praise poem to Oliver Reginald Tambo. As young men and women growing up under apartheid, ...

In Praise of Air, the world’s first air-cleansing poem, was produced by scientists and writers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. The catalytic poem by award-winning writer Simon ...