Africa as a matter of Spanish poetry of the 21st century: Guillermo López Gallego and Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán

Abstract

The spanish poetry of the 20^th and 21^st century that writes about Sub-Saharan Africa is rare. Similarly, there is hardly any literature on Equatorial Guinea written in spanish by guineans. The two cases we present, Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán y Guillermo López Gallego, are exceptional.  Through his testimonial poetry, we witness the horror of the war in Liberian, Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone or Ivory Coast. The extreme violence against men, womwn and children, due to the economic interest of developes countries, place us before an apocalyptic world to witch we remain alien.