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African Poetry Book Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of African Poetry Book books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the African Poetry Book series? Start with "The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (With: Tanella Boni,Todd Fredson)" (2011) and follow publication order through all 29 books.
The complete African Poetry Book reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (With: Tanella Boni,Todd Fredson)
2011
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 (By: Kofi Awoonor)
2014
Madman at Kilifi (By: Clifton Gachagua)
2014
The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (By: Kwame Dawes,Ladan Osman)
2015
Fuchsia (By: Kwame Dawes,Mahtem Shiferraw)
2016
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems (By: Gabriel Okara)
2016
Logotherapy (By: Mukoma wa Ngugi)
2016
When the Wanderers Come Home (By: Patricia Jabbeh Wesley)
2016
The January Children (By: Safia Elhillo)
2017
After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (By: Ama Ata Aidoo,Helen Yitah)
2017
Beating the Graves (By: Tsitsi Ella Jaji)
2017
In a Language That You Know (By: Len Verwey)
2017
Think of Lampedusa (By: Todd Fredson,John Keene,Josué Guébo)
2017
Stray (By: Kwame Dawes,Bernard Farai Matambo)
2018
The Careless Seamstress (By: Kwame Dawes,Tjawangwa Dema)
2019
Your Body Is War (By: Mahtem Shiferraw)
2019
Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology (By: Matthew Shenoda,Adil Babikir)
2019
Sacrament of Bodies (By: Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun)
2020
‘mamaseko (By: Thabile Makue)
2020
The Rinehart Frames (By: Kwame Dawes,Cheswayo Mphanza)
2021
Your Crib, My Qibla (By: Saddiq Dzukogi)
2021
In the Net (By: Christopher Wise,Mahmoudan Hawad,Helene Hawad)
2022
Mummy Eaters (By: Kwame Dawes,Sherry Shenoda)
2022
There Where It's So Bright in Me (By: Tanella Boni)
2022
Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (By: Keorapetse Kgositsile,Phillippa Yaa de Villiers,Uhuru Portia Phalafala)
2023
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
2000
The Civil Rights Reader
2009
The 1619 Project
2019
What God Is Honored Here?
2019
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