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- Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
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Bill NDI�s Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a paragon of socio-political and cultural alertness in verse that will get every reader on their toes. Bill NDI�s world is fraught with topsy-turvydom. It is a world darkened by experience and a keen sense of the wrongs plaguing his beloved country. He points out, without preaching, where it all went wrong, how it can, or what it will take to, be redeemed. The acerbity of Bill NDI�s criticism runs from the very first poem of the collection �Anthem for Essingang� through �The Promise� to the very last one �Papa Ngando Yi Mimba for Camelun�. What a clime characterised by a �clan of mbokos, clan of bandits�! It is just natural that as they perpetrate �death and sadness� in his beloved fatherland, nothing but �disgrace�, �great shame�, and �repudiation� awaits them for evermore.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Content
- pp. iii-iv
- Author's Note
- p. v
- Thorny Rose
- p. 3
- Encounters
- p. 5
- Our Success
- p. 7
- Pope of Camisa
- p. 9
- Gorji Guano
- p. 12
- The Real Guano
- p. 13
- From Then to Date
- p. 14
- Toxic Waste at Home
- p. 20
- Years Gone By
- p. 21
- Sleeping Fako
- p. 22
- Baby Ambazonia
- p. 23
- CJ's Cattle Market
- p. 24
- A Place I Called Home
- pp. 25-27
- Mare Providers
- p. 29
- The New Saul
- pp. 30-31
- Etoudi Royal Rat
- p. 32
- Ghost Lion
- p. 33
- Langston and Eye
- p. 34
- Ethical Criminal
- p. 35
- Tropical Jolt
- p. 36
- Soup Kingdom
- p. 38
- Dusty with the Rains
- p. 39
- Once a Nation of Giants
- pp. 40-41
- Wedding Day
- p. 42
- Quiet, Almost Sad
- p. 43
- Unpacking Cameroon
- p. 43
- Lord of Greed
- pp. 44-45
- A Song for Shepherds
- p. 46
- Forced...Lock
- p. 47
- The Sad Case
- p. 48
- My Brother Phoney
- p. 49
- Peaceful Cameroon
- p. 50
- The Promise
- p. 51
- Chop Chair
- p. 55
- Contree Pipole
- p. 56
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956578894
Related ISBN(s)
9789956578269
MARC Record
OCLC
835776954
Pages
68
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No