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Refractive Africa

Ballet of the Forgotten


  • Granta (Faber)
  • by Will Alexander
Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

ISBN 9781783788309 | EN | PB
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Publisher Granta (Faber)
ISBN 9781783788309
Author(s) Will Alexander
Publication date January 2022
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 131 mm
Pages 128
Language(s) English ed.
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Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

The collection turns around the long middle poem, using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history, honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area. He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt.