{"value"=>"Sc Audio C-018: African Poets Reading Their Own Poetry"}
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{"value"=>"<p>v01f02: Frank Parkes, Lenrie Peters, Joseph Kariuki, Okot p'Bitek, Robert Serumaga, John Nagenda, Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, J.P. Clark, John Mbiti, Dennis Brutus, and Cosmo Pieterse read their poems.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>Frank Parkes reads his poems \"Apocalypse at Birth,\" \"Blind Steersman,\" and \"The Un-laid Ghost.\" Parkes was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet.</li> <li>Lenrie Peters (Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters) reads his poems \"Wider Excursions,\" \"The Rage,\" \"Give Me Black Souls,\" \"Then I Came Back,\" \"Let's Go Up To The Hillside,\" \"Woman, Rest on my brow your balsam hands,\" \"On a wet September morning,\" \"Parachute men say,\" \"There was no warning,\" and \"Open the gates to east and west.\" Peters was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet, and educationist.</li> <li>Joseph Kariuki reads his poems \"What's Sore,\" \"New Life,\" \"Why should I complain,\" \"The Beam and the Mote-Vision through darkness,\" \"Sleepless in Angola,\" and \"Come Away my Love.\" Kariuki was a Kenyan poet.</li> <li>Okot p'Bitek reads extract from his poem \"Song of Lawino.\"</li> <li>Robert Serumaga reads his poem \"I Swear by Almighty God.\"</li> <li>John Nagenda reads his poems \"Flutes and Indians\" and \"Storms.\"</li> <li>Wole Soyinka reads his poems \"Alajere\" and \"Gulliver.\"</li> <li>Christopher Okigbo reads part one of his poem \"Limits.\"</li> <li>John Pepper Clark reads his poem \"Agbor Dancer.\"</li> <li>John Mbiti reads his poems \"Beyond the Phenomena,\" \"The Crucified Thief,\" and \"I am sweating blood for humanity.\" Mbiti was a Kenyan Christian philosopher, ordained Anglican priest, and writer.</li> <li>Dennis Brutus reads his poems \"A troubadour, I traverse,\" \"Erosion Transkei,\" and \"Flying into Kimberley.\"</li> <li>Cosmo Pieterse reads his poem \"Ballad of the Cells.\"</li></ol>"}