A Fallen Citadel And Other Poems

Author : J. Abala
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956727539
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems written by J. Abala and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems is a powerful collection of over forty prose poems. The poems cover an array of issues ranging from the crisis that ensued after the 2007-2008 elections in Kenya to other social issues: loss of identity, poverty, hopelessness, and AIDs. These poems are powerful, vivid, full of imagery, and delightful. Some begin tragically, but end with hope; they begin with an everyday event, but end with a philosophical question about the meaning of life; and others are not only disturbing, but also thought provoking. Abalas poetic maneuvers in this collection are bound to delight and fascinate any reader.

Author : M. Jua.
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956728071
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Betrayed Town and Other Poems written by M. Jua. and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roselyne M. Jua has taught English and American Literature and Creative Writing at the Universities of Yaounde (1986-1993) and Buea (1993-2012). At the University of Buea, she served as Dean of Faculty of Arts from 2010 to 2012. She is Director of Academic Affairs at the University Bamenda, North West Region, since August 2012. Dr Jua has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited the plays of Victor E. Musinga among whichare The BarnandThe Tragedy of Mr. No-Balance. She is co-author with Bate Besong ofTo the Budding Creative Writer: A Handbook.

Author : Archibald Rutledge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875170312
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart's Citadel, and Other Poems written by Archibald Rutledge and published by . This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick George Scott
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Lattice, and Other Poems written by Frederick George Scott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Lattice, and Other Poems" by Frederick George Scott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Atukwei Okai
Publisher : African Perspectives Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0992187532
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela the Spear and Other Poems written by Atukwei Okai and published by African Perspectives Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okais burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of a vigorous reinvention of the poetic genre that revolutionized the poet/audience relationship, changed the mode of expression from scriptography to narratology, and the role of the audience from that of passive reception to active participation.

Author : Martha Sprackland
Publisher : Pavilion Poetry
ISBN 13 : 178962102X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citadel written by Martha Sprackland and published by Pavilion Poetry. This book was released on 2020 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition. Conspired against, betrayed, imprisoned and usurped by her father, husband and son in turn, she lived much of her life confined at Tordesillas, and left almost nothing by way of a written record. The poems in Citadel are written by a composite 'I' - part Reformation-era monarch, part twenty-first century poet - brought together by a rupture in time as the result of ambiguous, traumatic events in the lives of two women separated by almost five hundred years. Across the distance between central Spain and the northwest coast of England these powerful, unsettling poems echo and double back, threading together the remembered places of childhood, the touchstones of pain, and the dreamscapes of an anxious, interior world. Symbolic objects - the cord, the telephone, eggs, a flashing blue light - make obsessive return, communication becoming increasingly difficult as the storm moves in over the sea. Citadel is a daring and luminous debut.

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666925055
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Immigrants and the American Experience written by Wanjala S. Nasong'o and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The population of African immigrants in the United States has grown rapidly over the past few decades. African Immigrants and the American Experience: Race, Anti-Black Violence, and the Quest for the American Dream by Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Imali J. Abala, and Kefa M. Otiso explores contemporary sub-Saharan African immigrants’ experiences with issues of race, ethnicity, and systemic violence in the United States. Each contributor within this volume dissects how these issues have impacted, and in many cases snuffed out, the immigrants’ quest for the fabled American dream. Divided into three sections, each chapter focuses on these main themes: race and anti-black violence, educational attainment among African immigrants in pursuit of the American dream, and African immigrant’s socioeconomics, health, and well-being. Through research and first-hand accounts, the contributors provide perspectives of what it truly means to be a sub-Saharan African immigrant in the United States.

Author : Richard GOOCH (of St. John's College, Cambridge.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redemption; the Song of the Spirit of Hiram; and other poems written by Richard GOOCH (of St. John's College, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Gooch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redemption, The Song of the Spirit of Hiram, and Other Poems written by Richard Gooch and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Abala
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779272693
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragmented Lives written by J. Abala and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this semi-autobiographical novel, Imali tells an unforgettable story of Mary Upanga, a young Kenyan woman's journey to USA for her studies and her ensuing hardships. As a nave Logooli girl, Mary is ill-prepared for life outside her rural setting of Kerongo. She must not only confront culture shock, but also racial discrimination, which shutter her sensibilities. That is not all. With her social security card stamped in bold letters: "BEARER NOT PERMITTED TO WORK," she struggles to find employment to support herself. Later, she is forced to take on odd jobs as threats of deportation and eviction from her flat become a looming reality. It does not take her long to realize that there is more to life in America than she imagined. She is not alone. A sea of other new African immigrants face similar fates. Tales of young men who perish, unable to cope with their new reality, threaten her quest and dreams for success. In this land of the free, Mary lives a fragmented life. Will she survive or succumb to the challenges of life as new African immigrant to American soil?