In a predicament all my life : (a collection of poems) / Prudentia Binwi Asobo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asobo, Prudentia Binwi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Cameroon--Poetry.

Cameroon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In A Predicament All My Life marks out some of the distressing ills of the postcolonial elite and the challenges of present-day African societies and cultures. The Poems in this collection bring into conversation precolonial Africa and Africa since colonialism. In particular, the poems explore Cameroon's predicament, its reunification traits, and its existential challenges. They represent a people who are out of favour, have lived in misery for most of their lives but are determined to stand firm and seek justice. In addition, the poems depict how women deal with gender oppression in a patriarchal society caught between and betwixt.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Alengnge nifor (The Royal Stool); As a shadow all my life; As A Suspect All My Life; The End Shall Come; The Moungo Randez-vous; Mengie-Ntoh (Queen Mother); Once upon a time; Awoundo Gigidja'a; Alu'ungi ( Dirge); The Walk to Foumban; The Bartered Citizen; No way to Hide; Let us become we; Liberty Fighters; Opponents in the house; Rats That Bite And Blow; Beacons of Cameroon; The Godfathered; Frailty; They're all inquisitive; Let Cameroon be Cameroon Again; Ger-Bri-Fre rule; Sugar Coated Tongues; As A Victim All My Life

Shall My People Be Like M'dela?Never Mind My Brother; Big Brother's net; Society crafted it so; Grand Camarad; Generational Curses; I say it unadorned; Jumble mates; They'll meet doom; The Land Shall Be Ours; They Can't Hide From Judgement; Time Will Heal Our Wounds; Grenade Chopped Off My Arm; The Leader's Ministers; Let Afreeka be Afreeka again; Thwarted Hopes; I Decry In Plain Words; Afreekan Poli-leaders; Shadowed and Ignored; The Cruelty of Tear-gas; The Bridge That Joined Us; The Mind That Hides Within; Ebola The Ravager; Beware Africa; Boko Harmers; The Sufferer's Syndicate

I'll Not Judge by the PastTheir voices pull my heartstrings; Melancholy; Seraph; I am A Nobody; Gray Tears; Johnny's Walk Too Foumban; I Swear To This Oath; I Will Carve Up the Moungo; Pain In My Siesta; Ancestral Tears; The Revolver in African Arms; African leaders, let us unite; In A Predicament All My Life; Tear-Drop s In My heart; Why I Hate Boko Harams; We Will Survive the Hurt; All is Vanity; The Raided Northern Cameroon; Haram Assaults; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9789956762804

9956762806

OCLC:

929790842