Revelations: Africa in Poetry

Preface

vii Preface This book is a diverse, impeccable collection of poems that strive to render insights on and acknowledge the theoretical and practical potentialities of poetry in questioning and reflecting on the realities of life. The book expresses with great legerdemain a gamut of issues, desirable and undesirable alike such as dissipation, corruption, war, love, bad governance, greediness, anxiety, religion, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, natural environment and culture: socio-economic and political issues that trouble, boggle and dishearten humanity across the world. With its incisive but rigorous studious excursion on the theoretical and practical potentialities of poetry to penetrate all spheres of life and reveal the truths beneath, this book powerfully and aptly questions a wide spectrum of situations. The volume is an expression of the author’s passion for a ‘good life’ to all- a life in which all pragmatic strategies aimed at addressing the problematic concerns of humanity are reflected upon and brought to light. As such, this book is a penetrating and refreshing exposè steeped in candour and sincerity as it brings together poems of different dimensions in an intellectual fait accompli worthy of inclusion in one cherished collection. For lovers of poetry, cognoscenti, students and instructors of English Literature, this is a must-read text! viii ...