On the other side of fifty & rays of lamentation / Mbu Mbu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mbu, Mbu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laments--Cameroon.

Laments.

African poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection dissects post-independence Cameroon as a representative postcolonial junction. The history that assists in the writing of the poems is a necessary background to understand the dislocated vision of an erstwhile independent territory. After a patriotic pastime of sweeping every bit of rubbish under the carpet of national unity for over fifty years, the collection summons us to introspect on the consequences of feeding and living on a national lie. It is only after such reflection that, hopefully, remedial gestures can offer ënew dreams on the dawn of new sleepí.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Beginning""; ""No More Sirens""; ""New Dreams""; ""Toading my Name""; ""Anglocam Defined""; ""Hammocks from Bridges""; ""Bamenda""; ""Kribi""; ""Maroua La Belle""; ""When We Sell Cameroon""; ""The Second Coming""; ""What Jesus Said""; ""Fear of Fire""; ""Jesus My Brother""; ""Motherly Power""; ""Namondo�s Garden""; ""A Mother�s Lament""; ""For Njifor""; ""Bob, My Man""; ""Going on Retirement""; ""Of her Laughter""; ""Bliss of Innocence""; ""After Purupa-in-Picasso""; ""Soul Unloved""; ""Ashes""

""The Release""""A While Ago""; ""Beads of Flame""; ""Lonely Migrant""; ""Pilgrim""; ""Bondage""; ""Beyond Caring""; ""When I Fall""; ""Mourners""; ""Epigraph""; ""Waiting""; ""Appointments and Installations""; ""If Anomah Ngu Were No Anglofool""; ""Se Porte Bienhood""; ""Okonkwo�s Sword""; ""Chopstick Diplomacy""; ""A Jawbone""; ""Plaintiff Call""; ""The Dying Heritage""; ""Unoka�s Flute""; ""Apocalypse""; ""Reddening Skyline""; ""The Piss of Peace""; ""Blinking Horizon""; ""Courtship of the Pistol""; ""The Exile""; ""Jeremiah�s Tears""; ""How not to Define Patriotism""

""The Other Side of Gold""""Back cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9789956790913

9956790915

9789956790906

9956790907

OCLC:

853361180