Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American ... Lucy was stolen from Africa as an infant and sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Saf's amazing poem takes us to the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient civilisation in Africa, just south of Ancient ... to eat with stew - the stew might be made with Khudra, a vegetable like spinach.

The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for ...