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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480090603321

Autore

Akombi Sammy Oke

Titolo

God the Artist and Other Poems / Sammy Oke Akombi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Disciplina

821/.92

Soggetti

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; Contents; Foreword; God The Artist; The Written Word; Silent Scribbles; Blackness in Darkness; Magnanimous Mandela; Winsome Strength; Ode To A Leader; Some Showers Of Peace; The First Saturday After My Death; The Second Saturday After My Death; The Third Saturday After My Death; Images Of A Time; Casualties; Cameroon; Genesis; I Wish I Wore Your Shoes; West Cameroon Brother; It Was Our Choice; Guests At Dawn; Liberty Unveiled; Era Of Demagogues; Deception; Cry Of Distress; Bully at His Best; The Optimist; Launched Into The Labyrinth

A Million Thanks For ListeningBird Watching; It's Just Too Much; Lessons from America; She; The Pearl Spell; O! Nigeria; Black September In The U.S.; Black Saturday At Nsam; Innocence; Dry Season; Season Of Green; A Bush Fire; Something From Nothing; A Costly Regal; 'Able' Captain Camara; Reagonophobia; The Monster Down South; Africa Welcomes The World; The Report Card; Lessons Of Madiba's Demise; Money! Money!; Stakes Of Love; Man's Body's Sacred; Forlorn Sparrow; Kid Brother Ayukepi; Pushed To The Wall; For Esong I; For Esong II; A Chimpanzee In Tears; Common Enemy; To My Brother The Thief

Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

God the Artist and Other Poems is a work of art that resonates with the people of Cameroon, Africa and the world. The collection of over seventy poems celebrates humanity and human beauty. At the same



time the poems remind humanity of and castigate its shortcomings.