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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458820003321

Autore

Ndi Bill F

Titolo

K'cracy, trees in the storm & other poems [[electronic resource] ] : (composed & written 1984-2006) / / by Bill F. Ndi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2008

ISBN

1-283-19779-0

9786613197795

9956-715-21-2

9956-715-33-6

9956-615-87-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Disciplina

811.54

Soggetti

Cameroonian poetry (English)

Cameroonian literature (English)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Happy Birthday; Letter to our deaf father of the nation: "Mr. Dict...."; A Song For African Heroes; Hearing the Voiceless; Seeing From The Other Side; The Wealth Of Poverty; Beyond Sentient Patience; Thirst: Would Our Heads Understand; The Racist Black (A Prose for the Headless African); Presence; Freedom Givers (In Old Dahomey); Sweet Exile; Glen; Ridding; Hostages; Another Messiah Is Born; Remains: New Arms Stardom; Forest Guile; In my herd; Transparency; A Century Ago; May Be In A Dream; The Seine By Night; Platitudesmaybe

Stained GarbThe Inner Being; To The Jap; As Sun Sets East; A Fisherman Dreams; Come's The Time; Wreck; Instinct; We Preys; Fools Themselves; Our Lot; Hurdles; Rain Dance (Daunting); Pari(S)Ah; Paris: Is It?; Our Kind Stepmother; Cartridges; All In A Second; My Prayer; Sunset; U - Suffrage; Vain Glory; Complex "S"; The Transfer; The Scum; The Greyhound; The Gospel; American Dream Village; Tryst; Our Bride; My Happy Plight; K'CRACY; The Shoots; The Versatiles; Family Feud; Stale-Word (Hope); Machination; The Plebs: Their Chair; We See, Only Mourn.



Cities' Debacle

Dragonlike Friday (April Sixth)Pope Of Camsima; In Our Manger: Are We Strangers?; The Private; Our House; Dredging Mokolo Market; Assassinating Democracy (Insurgence); Progress; The Beggar; Caught; Madam Landlord; Viper; Legless; Soccer Queen; Spaying South; Indigentia; IUD; The Ivorian; The Best Priest; Gorji Guano; The Real Guano; The Deal: Tough Times; From Then To Date; Zoorhs; Coins and Sheets; Mean Idiot; Chiefdom; Shark's Shack; Heir; Grassfield; Their Yearnings; Gunner Gone; The Head; The Village Mountain; He; The World a Classroom; as it was (epilogue); Extricated, Yet On The Fence

Pastor PresidentThe Downtrodden; Equality; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

In K?cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Bill Ndi vociferously bemoans the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfellows; a world wherein miscreants proceed with nauseating impunity to trample on innocence. The poet, a widely traveled scholar in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, currently resides in Australia where he is hailed as an Ambassador of the Peace. Informed by his experience as a child of the world - being at home away from home and thinking of home, Bill Ndi serves the reader with a delicious platter of poetic maze which to him is synonymous to the po