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By Chimeno Azriel
A number of poets from Creative Minds Alive recently released an anthology poetry book ECHOES OF AFRICA, a book that seeks to embrace all the ages and leaves the reader with the desire to want to read more poems. The 82-page book which was launched online and on other social media platforms captures life experienced by the writers and the world at large.
According to the Founder and Director of Creative Minds Alive, Mr. Fortune Munsaka, the anthology took about a year to complete as poets had to invest their quality time to come up with an exciting project.
“We had to take about a year to come up with the project as we wanted it to be the best and exciting project coming from writers across Africa.”
During an interview, the Director said the poems are based on various aspects of life. Echoes of Africa is a book that compliments Creative Minds Alive Programmes and it has contents that cover education, gender-based violence, love, drug abuse, Covid-19, death, nature, and depression.
“This book contains pieces of works from various poets and the book complements Creative Minds Alive Programs. It is a must-have book,” said Munsaka.
The book Echoes of Africa has different flavours that make it tasty as it is rich in passion, praises, love, lamentations, and sad and sweet stories.
Seventeen poets mostly from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Nigeria came up with an anthology of poems that are a true reflection of what people experience. Published by Pre-dawn Books and Films which is a division of the Creative Minds Alive initiative, Echoes of Africa is a gourd of fluid poems and has brilliant voices which scour deeper down to the soul.
According to Munsaka, the poems unveil the darker lives of many, hopes, love and inspiration that are the menu that poets in this anthology serve all the time.
“These poems thrive not only by their ambition to resound long-forgotten voices but by their poignancy and beautiful diversity which is a reflection of the nature of Africa,” said Mr. Munsaka.