Book of the Week – Afriku: A book of haiku and senryu by Ghanaian poet Adjei Agyei-Baah
Adjei is the inventor and champion of Afriku – an avant-garde haiku type that focuses on the unique images and settings of Africa.
Delve into the history of English-language haiku in the most direct way possible: by reading its poets. The Book-of-the-Week series presents a new, digitized version of a book of haiku, recent or classic, drawn from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library and other holdings. Host: our digital librarian, Dan Campbell.