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- 2011
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
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In this juvenalia, his first collection of poems, Francis Nyamnjoh takes the reader back in time, even as the past catches up with the present, to show how unchanging and even painful life can be. Accordingly, the poems celebrate, mourn, ridicule, lambast, and lament, thereby highlighting Nyamnjoh�s characteristic fascination with the plight of the person in society, a picture which reaffirms his already established role as the conscience of spaces, especially those African.
Table of Contents
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- Title page
- p. iii
- Copyright page
- p. iv
- Introduction
- pp. ix-x
- 1. Learning and Leading
- Flight from Science
- pp. 6-7
- The Genuine Intellectual
- pp. 8-9
- To the Leader
- p. 10
- The Work of a Leader
- p. 12
- When the Jujus Fell Like One
- pp. 13-14
- 2. Is Love an Illusion?
- Is She for Men?
- p. 17
- Love Token
- p. 18
- A New Year Illusion
- pp. 19-20
- Love Hunger
- p. 21
- A Loveful Message
- pp. 23-24
- 3. Sharp and Brusque
- Depart Not!
- p. 28
- Sharp and Brusque
- p. 29
- To Pay her Lover's Bils
- pp. 31-32
- 4. Do Ordinary People Exist?
- 5. Fathers and Sons
- One is Enough
- p. 39
- The Dilemma
- pp. 41-42
- 6. Outrage and Hope
- The Lone Culprit
- p. 48
- Volatile Dreams
- p. 52
- 7. Ignorance and Freedom
- 8. Power and Resistance
- The Whitemen of God
- p. 61
- Music that Harms
- p. 62
- A Complex Situation
- p. 63
- The Rumour Went
- p. 64
- My Grievous Bed
- p. 65
- Resolutions
- p. 67
- But in Them All
- p. 69
- Reassurance
- p. 72
- 9. Peacemakers
- Dregs of War
- p. 76
- Makers of Peace
- p. 77
- Quelque Chose
- p. 78
- 10. Certain and Uncertain
- What the Wise Say
- p. 81
- Show me to Bamenda
- p. 82
- All Have Changed
- p. 83
- I'm Certain
- p. 84
- The Ambiguity of Hazards
- pp. 96-86
- Back cover
- p. bc
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956716753
Related ISBN(s)
9789956579273
MARC Record
OCLC
776898401
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No