Beware the drives / Sammy Oke Akombi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akombi, Sammy Oke.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of man. The observation brought this writer to the conclusion that man is dominated by fear and in his effort to conquer it, he resorts to unbridled aggression. Such aggression has been very instrumental in much of the success that humanity has been able to achieve, so far. But at the same time, the same aggression in man's nature has been responsible for the pleasure he takes in the ruthless destruction of his own kind, the environment in

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; A Poet's Epitaph; Tell Me; Hurdles; Beware the Drives; Victims; My Mind; No Greater Awe; Quite Depressing; Won't Mother Stop?; No Curse; No Scare; Fortune's Path; Art; Justice; Courage; The Harvest; Reluctant Democracy; Enjoying A Symphony; Leadership; What Makes Them Tick; Courts Must Count; Appreciation; Thank God For Chissano; Civil Slavery; Life; Living; Soldiers of Life; Regals; Bliss and Adversity; Modesty and Vanity; Freedom; Intolerance; Failure; Uncle Sam; Identity; Experience; Mistakes; Conscience

Cause and EffectDestiny; Priority; Love and Truth; Women; Wives; Expectations; Bitterness; Agents of Evil; Sycophants; Criticism; Twisted Minds; Vice and Virtue; Cameroon; A Reminder; My Commitment; Poetry; Two Fighting; Peace; The Flag of Peace; A Dove; Give a Piece; Finding Peace; No Need To Lose Blood; Brother Suicide Bomber; Nothing Counts; Worth; In A Boeing; Paris-Chicago; Hard Times; The Youth; Importance of The Whole; The Whole Story; Language; Your Pleasure And Your Treasure; It Doesn't Make Sense; It Takes A Lifetime; A Magic Hand; Recovery; A Rebirth; I Wonder; Whither The Claims

The Prairie LightsThe Iowa Riverside; No Need For A Queue; Avoid The Back; Pride; My Mother; Insecurity; The Biggest Upset; Tears; Misfortune; Solutions; The Madona In My Dream; Globilisation; Fall Out; Colonised Mind; Once I Begged Some Fish; Development; Chain Smoker; To John Keats and His Likes; Misdeeds; Shall We Ever Get There?; Brains Like Grains; A Fervent Wish; Dear Oppressor; Poor Us; Fooling You; An Enemy; Most of The Time; Seers; Importance of Past; The Family; Inextricable Knot; Materialism; Thoughts on Corruption; Give Them A Chance; Never Think They're A Fool

Kill No Man For God's SakeHow Honest Are You?; My Little Boy; Resilience; Value Scale Balance; Happiness; Find It; Being Upright; Two Wills; At Ahmadou's Deathbed; The Tinker; Writer On The Run; For Everything, Thank God; Back cover

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9786613198020

9781283198028

1283198029

9789956715725

9956715727

9789956715848

9956715840

9789956615810

9956615811

OCLC:

830166416