Liberian Literary Magazine
Promoting Liberian Literature, Arts and Culture
Portor Portor
Yearnings Of A Traveler
We all have a yearning for something.
For Lekpele, his has been a message of
self worth, as we see in his signature
piece, My Body is Gold; one of
patriotism, as in Scars of A Tired Nation;
one of Pan Africanism as in the piece,
Dig
The
Graves. He
also has a
message of
hope
as
seenin his
award
winning
poem,
Forgotten
Future. He
is
an
emerging
voice that
one can’t
afford to ignore. Yearning is the debut
chapbook by Liberian poet, Lekpele M.
Nyamalon.
Portor Portor is an anthology of emerging and
established poets from Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana,
and Botswana. Portor-Portor, a Liberian
concept, refers to a pot of unevenly cooked ricesoft, sticky, grainy and lumpy. Within a single
pot, is the embodiment of the notion of unity in
diversity.
Portor Portor features 12 African poets whose
poems cover a wide range of topics- from daily
life issues to religious, traditional and
contemporary issues plaguing the continent.
They offer us a rare glimpse into a diverse
modern Africa. Portor Portor, in this edition,
presents a unified voice amidst that diversity.
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