Author: Bole Butake
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956790001
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a testament on the universality of poetry. It is an invitation for those in tune with poetry to reaffirm its magic and to spread the warmth of its embrace in celebration of a common and boundless humanity.
Cameroon Anthology of Poetry
Author: Bole Butake
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956790001
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a testament on the universality of poetry. It is an invitation for those in tune with poetry to reaffirm its magic and to spread the warmth of its embrace in celebration of a common and boundless humanity.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956790001
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a testament on the universality of poetry. It is an invitation for those in tune with poetry to reaffirm its magic and to spread the warmth of its embrace in celebration of a common and boundless humanity.
Corpses of Unity
Author: Nsah Mala
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9966139494
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Cameroon is no longer a peace-haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the avoidable but worsening and under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon. Written in English and French, the anthology brings together thirty-three poets from thirteen countries in Africa and beyond. The poets are concerned with the blood baths, burnings and other crimes committed in Anglophone Cameroon in the name of unity or division. Their poems paint raw images of the cruel killings of old people, pregnant women and children like those of #NgarbuhMassacre. They excavate the hidden mass graves and unveil the countless villages reduced to ashes and rubble. They recall the burning of animals and food and the brutal killing of nurses, patients and teachers. Their stanzas meander along with refugees in forests into Nigeria, into the jungles of Mexico en route to the US, and elsewhere. It is poetry speaking for human life and dignity, for peace and education, for inclusive dialogue, for reconciliation. It is poetry which should ruffle the consciences of those doing business in war, those pulling strings behind curtains, those who see oil before humans, those who trigger guns at their own brothers, sisters and parents, those who give orders to killin short, those who enjoy warfare as they profit from the spoils of war. This anthology seeks to raise global awareness on this forgotten war as a way of contributing to justice, healing, and peace in Cameroon.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9966139494
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Cameroon is no longer a peace-haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the avoidable but worsening and under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon. Written in English and French, the anthology brings together thirty-three poets from thirteen countries in Africa and beyond. The poets are concerned with the blood baths, burnings and other crimes committed in Anglophone Cameroon in the name of unity or division. Their poems paint raw images of the cruel killings of old people, pregnant women and children like those of #NgarbuhMassacre. They excavate the hidden mass graves and unveil the countless villages reduced to ashes and rubble. They recall the burning of animals and food and the brutal killing of nurses, patients and teachers. Their stanzas meander along with refugees in forests into Nigeria, into the jungles of Mexico en route to the US, and elsewhere. It is poetry speaking for human life and dignity, for peace and education, for inclusive dialogue, for reconciliation. It is poetry which should ruffle the consciences of those doing business in war, those pulling strings behind curtains, those who see oil before humans, those who trigger guns at their own brothers, sisters and parents, those who give orders to killin short, those who enjoy warfare as they profit from the spoils of war. This anthology seeks to raise global awareness on this forgotten war as a way of contributing to justice, healing, and peace in Cameroon.
Crossroads of Dreams
Author: Franklin Agogho
Publisher: Spears Media Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Crossroads of Dreams is a steamy potpourri of poetry by Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla and M.D. Mbutoh which redefine representations of African youth through the prisms of politics, emigration and the enduring threat of underdevelopment. How would one explain the persistence of poverty and oppression in Africa amidst the superabundance of natural and human resources? In their search for answers, the poets not only chastise but also to point to a verdant and promising future – free of corruption, greed, violence and neo-colonialism. Other themes covered in the anthology include gender, identity and family ties. Animated by three distinctive styles, the eighty-eight poems in this volume will surely enrage, provoke laughter, sorrow, disgust but also hope, courage and visions of a promising Africa in all its splendour and tribulations.
Publisher: Spears Media Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Crossroads of Dreams is a steamy potpourri of poetry by Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla and M.D. Mbutoh which redefine representations of African youth through the prisms of politics, emigration and the enduring threat of underdevelopment. How would one explain the persistence of poverty and oppression in Africa amidst the superabundance of natural and human resources? In their search for answers, the poets not only chastise but also to point to a verdant and promising future – free of corruption, greed, violence and neo-colonialism. Other themes covered in the anthology include gender, identity and family ties. Animated by three distinctive styles, the eighty-eight poems in this volume will surely enrage, provoke laughter, sorrow, disgust but also hope, courage and visions of a promising Africa in all its splendour and tribulations.
Bearing Witness
Author: Joyce Ashuntantang
Publisher: Spears Media Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Bearing Witness: Poems from a Land in Turmoil is a poetic response to the devastating Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict in Cameroon that has killed thousands of children, women and men, displaced over half a million people and left hundreds of communities in ruins. The poems in this volume capture an all-encompassing landscape marked by alienation, despair, displacement, loss, anger, trauma, as well as courage, hope, heroism, justice and resilience. These poems also engender psychic healing which has the potential of turning victims into survivors. With over 100 poems by 73 poets—seasoned and emerging, old and young, men and women—this collection is not only a guidepost of collective memory, but also the definitive literary work of this period in Cameroon’s checkered history.
Publisher: Spears Media Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Bearing Witness: Poems from a Land in Turmoil is a poetic response to the devastating Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict in Cameroon that has killed thousands of children, women and men, displaced over half a million people and left hundreds of communities in ruins. The poems in this volume capture an all-encompassing landscape marked by alienation, despair, displacement, loss, anger, trauma, as well as courage, hope, heroism, justice and resilience. These poems also engender psychic healing which has the potential of turning victims into survivors. With over 100 poems by 73 poets—seasoned and emerging, old and young, men and women—this collection is not only a guidepost of collective memory, but also the definitive literary work of this period in Cameroon’s checkered history.
Emerging Voices
Author: Oscar C. Labang
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
ISBN: 1449907113
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The emerging voices in the anthology are ... strong assertive voices with fervent statements about life; they are distinctive voices that seek to amend the fragmentary experiences of the past and present and to provide another vision for the future; finally, they are prophetic voices that carry with them symptoms of more meaningful existence as well as innovative techniques that stimulate the fading pulse of poetry.
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
ISBN: 1449907113
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The emerging voices in the anthology are ... strong assertive voices with fervent statements about life; they are distinctive voices that seek to amend the fragmentary experiences of the past and present and to provide another vision for the future; finally, they are prophetic voices that carry with them symptoms of more meaningful existence as well as innovative techniques that stimulate the fading pulse of poetry.
The Beauty of Thinking
Author: Gahlia Njongoh Gwangwa'a
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Inside the Beyonds
Author: Conrad Njuh Ndoh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736367919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Inside the Beyonds is a scintillating poetry anthology that has brought together ten literary minds from Cameroon. Through their poetry, these ten stewards of the pen have sought to translate the being, the meaning and the feeling of young creatives from the Cameroonian minority English-speaking population.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736367919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Inside the Beyonds is a scintillating poetry anthology that has brought together ten literary minds from Cameroon. Through their poetry, these ten stewards of the pen have sought to translate the being, the meaning and the feeling of young creatives from the Cameroonian minority English-speaking population.
Songs for Tomorrow
Author: Oscar C. Labang
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
ISBN: 145153244X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
... The poems in this collection, consequently, speak the immortal language of confusion, betrayal, anger, hate, and despair, in relation to Cameroon and the world at large, yet there is room for true love, and forgiveness. It is true that in an increasingly unstable nation and a world that seems to have lost its head, the works of writers, such as the poets here assembled, must engage in a most powerful manner the goals and ethos of the entire human race. These then are poems by poets who are desperate yet practically involved in an individual but equally collective effort to trigger positive change throughout their national territory and wherever the wailing voices of mankind suffering under the yoke of oppression, disillusionment, and despair can be heard. Consequently, these are poems shaped by the poets' experiences and those of their societies as a whole. These poets mean their poems to reshape the cosmos, to shatter especially government sponsored illusions by making concrete the reality which has, until of recent, only been a mirage to the common man; hence, the socio-cultural nature of the contextual definition of this volume. Emmanuel Fru Doh
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
ISBN: 145153244X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
... The poems in this collection, consequently, speak the immortal language of confusion, betrayal, anger, hate, and despair, in relation to Cameroon and the world at large, yet there is room for true love, and forgiveness. It is true that in an increasingly unstable nation and a world that seems to have lost its head, the works of writers, such as the poets here assembled, must engage in a most powerful manner the goals and ethos of the entire human race. These then are poems by poets who are desperate yet practically involved in an individual but equally collective effort to trigger positive change throughout their national territory and wherever the wailing voices of mankind suffering under the yoke of oppression, disillusionment, and despair can be heard. Consequently, these are poems shaped by the poets' experiences and those of their societies as a whole. These poets mean their poems to reshape the cosmos, to shatter especially government sponsored illusions by making concrete the reality which has, until of recent, only been a mirage to the common man; hence, the socio-cultural nature of the contextual definition of this volume. Emmanuel Fru Doh
The New African Poetry
Author: Tanure Ojaide
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780894108914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780894108914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s.
Thunder on the Mountain
Author: Bole Butake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameroon poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description