Treasury of African love
Subtitle: poems & proverbs
By: edited by Nicholas Awde.
Contributors: Awde, Nicholas.
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Love poetry, African -- Translations into English.; Love poetry, African.; Quotations -- Africa.; Proverbs, African -- Translations into English.; Proverbs, African.; Love -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Description: Includes English translations of poems and proverbs of love which are also printed here in the following languages: Afar, Amharic, Ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphics), Bemba, Berber, Coptic, Dari, Egyptian, Hausa, Krio, Lala, Malagasy, Mandinka, Maasai, Mbosi, Oromo, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Yoruba, and Zulu.