A basket of kola nuts / Bongasu Tanla Kishani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bongasu-Tanla-Kishani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bold, original and stimulating in its inspirational insights, A Basket of Kola Nuts explores Cameroonís cultures as remarkable pivots of moral rectitude and such sickening vicious-circles as bribery and corruption. Ethnically grass-rooted and globalizing rather than alarmingly exotic and exclusive, this poetic diction of form-content aims at revitalizing its material contents to sever it from extinction and revamp cultural values that break the patience of silence to question deviation rather than the concrete interface of cultural identities and differences. Uprightly appealing, this poetry g

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; I - Patterns of Kola Nut Baskets Upside-Down; A Kola Nut of Life; II - Ad Lib Kola Baskets; III - Baskets of Kola Nuts; Prologue; I; II; III; Baskets of Kola Nuts; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; IV - Open Kola Nut Baskets; An Open Kola Nut Basket; Patterns of Open Kola Nut Baskets; 14; 15; 16; Epilogue; Other Poems; A Change of Heart; Business Politics; Lessons of Tears; Relics and Reins; Mistakes; Etudi; A Teacher's Dream; On the Laps of Hills; The Hidden Truth; Cameroon: Who Wins?; Our First Aid Boxes

Glossary of Notes and ExplanationsBack Cover

Notes:

Poetry.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613197719

9781283197717

1283197715

9789956579945

9956579947

9789956579112

9956579114

9789956615162

9956615161

OCLC:

776905864