K'cracy, trees in the storm & other poems : (composed & written 1984-2006) / by Bill F. Ndi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndi, Bill F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Cameroonian literature (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

K'cracy, trees in the storm and other poems

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In K?cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Bill Ndi vociferously bemoans the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfellows; a world wherein miscreants proceed with nauseating impunity to trample on innocence. The poet, a widely traveled scholar in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, currently resides in Australia where he is hailed as an Ambassador of the Peace. Informed by his experience as a child of the world - being at home away from home and thinking of home, Bill Ndi serves the reader with a delicious platter of poetic maze which to him is synonymous to the po

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Happy Birthday; Letter to our deaf father of the nation: "Mr. Dict...."; A Song For African Heroes; Hearing the Voiceless; Seeing From The Other Side; The Wealth Of Poverty; Beyond Sentient Patience; Thirst: Would Our Heads Understand; The Racist Black (A Prose for the Headless African); Presence; Freedom Givers (In Old Dahomey); Sweet Exile; Glen; Ridding; Hostages; Another Messiah Is Born; Remains: New Arms Stardom; Forest Guile; In my herd; Transparency; A Century Ago; May Be In A Dream; The Seine By Night; Platitudesmaybe

Stained GarbThe Inner Being; To The Jap; As Sun Sets East; A Fisherman Dreams; Come's The Time; Wreck; Instinct; We Preys; Fools Themselves; Our Lot; Hurdles; Rain Dance (Daunting); Pari(S)Ah; Paris: Is It?; Our Kind Stepmother; Cartridges; All In A Second; My Prayer; Sunset; U - Suffrage; Vain Glory; Complex "S"; The Transfer; The Scum; The Greyhound; The Gospel; American Dream Village; Tryst; Our Bride; My Happy Plight; K'CRACY; The Shoots; The Versatiles; Family Feud; Stale-Word (Hope); Machination; The Plebs: Their Chair; We See, Only Mourn. Cities' Debacle

Dragonlike Friday (April Sixth)Pope Of Camsima; In Our Manger: Are We Strangers?; The Private; Our House; Dredging Mokolo Market; Assassinating Democracy (Insurgence); Progress; The Beggar; Caught; Madam Landlord; Viper; Legless; Soccer Queen; Spaying South; Indigentia; IUD; The Ivorian; The Best Priest; Gorji Guano; The Real Guano; The Deal: Tough Times; From Then To Date; Zoorhs; Coins and Sheets; Mean Idiot; Chiefdom; Shark's Shack; Heir; Grassfield; Their Yearnings; Gunner Gone; The Head; The Village Mountain; He; The World a Classroom; as it was (epilogue); Extricated, Yet On The Fence

Pastor PresidentThe Downtrodden; Equality; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613197795

9781283197793

1283197790

9789956715213

9956715212

9789956715336

9956715336

9789956615872

9956615870

OCLC:

646849438