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UNINA9910458691603321 |
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Autore |
Mbunda Frida Menkan |
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Titolo |
Shadows from the abyss [[electronic resource] /] / Frida Menkan Mbunda |
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Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19848-7 |
9956-716-89-8 |
9786613198488 |
9956-716-06-5 |
9956-615-11-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (50 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cameroonian poetry (English) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; In Bewilderment; They are Corrupt; The Justice of the Unjust; The Wedding Feast; Praying Amiss; Nature; Vogue; Dethroning; Orature; The Family Calabash; African Democracy; The Saviors; Unchangeable Africa; Working His Purpose; My Mother; My first classroom; Morning in my village; My friend; The stranger; The lone way; Land of Pretence; Home Alone; From Bondage Slavery to Free Slavery; Another dream Deferred; Frenches; The Manifesto; Someday; The Sacrifice; Handwriting on the wall; The Unstoppable; You Cannot Know |
Created in God's NameIn the Name of the Father; Tongue; African, the Unkown Land; The Ritual Drink; Life; Pen; Moonlit Night; Helpless; Mummy; The Obasinjom Warrior; For Mirthful Hilarious Ambe; Unity?; Black; Dance of Restoration; Enemy-friends; Nchindah; The beauty of closeness; Nonentities; The IMS; Fellowshipises; My Day of passing; Your Anniversary; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is the first volume of a patriotic poet whose heart is on fire. The poems touch on a variety of issues, some personal and private, other public - past and current. They range from family, love and longing; |
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friendship and marriage, to culture, politics, corruption and death. They are cadenced and vibrant with different emotions: nostalgia, regret and outrage; loss, pain and pathos tinged with a touch of wistfulness and irony. In style and themes, they reveal a keen observer, a budding poet struggling to find her stride; to mine the shallows and the deeps of human experience, to give a uniq |
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