Shadows from the abyss / Frida Menkan Mbunda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mbunda, Frida Menkan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first volume of a patriotic poet whose heart is on fire. The poems touch on a variety of issues, some personal and private, other public - past and current. They range from family, love and longing; friendship and marriage, to culture, politics, corruption and death. They are cadenced and vibrant with different emotions: nostalgia, regret and outrage; loss, pain and pathos tinged with a touch of wistfulness and irony. In style and themes, they reveal a keen observer, a budding poet struggling to find her stride; to mine the shallows and the deeps of human experience, to give a uniq

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; In Bewilderment; They are Corrupt; The Justice of the Unjust; The Wedding Feast; Praying Amiss; Nature; Vogue; Dethroning; Orature; The Family Calabash; African Democracy; The Saviors; Unchangeable Africa; Working His Purpose; My Mother; My first classroom; Morning in my village; My friend; The stranger; The lone way; Land of Pretence; Home Alone; From Bondage Slavery to Free Slavery; Another dream Deferred; Frenches; The Manifesto; Someday; The Sacrifice; Handwriting on the wall; The Unstoppable; You Cannot Know

Created in God's NameIn the Name of the Father; Tongue; African, the Unkown Land; The Ritual Drink; Life; Pen; Moonlit Night; Helpless; Mummy; The Obasinjom Warrior; For Mirthful Hilarious Ambe; Unity?; Black; Dance of Restoration; Enemy-friends; Nchindah; The beauty of closeness; Nonentities; The IMS; Fellowshipises; My Day of passing; Your Anniversary; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613198488

9781283198486

1283198487

9789956716890

9956716898

9789956716067

9956716065

9789956615117

9956615110

OCLC:

830165731