"In this wide-ranging collection of forty-three poems, John Ngong Kum Ngong undertakes a critical and acerbic diagnosis of the socio-political situation in postcolonial Africa through a deceptively simple, aesthetically complex, and ideologically intriguing style. The multi-facetted and interrelated motifs of 'shadows' and 'seasons', together with a plethora of literary devices such as paradox, suspense, metaphors, allusions, personification, irony, satire, humour, and contrast, are the weapons through which the poet drives home his message. The poems, in this collection, are not only politically 'correct' but are also artistically profound." - Zuhmboshi Eric Nsuh, PhD
Lecturer, Literary Critic, and Political Analyst
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Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 3 mm
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ISBN-13
978-9956-550-52-4 (9789956550524)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Ngong Kum Ngong is an educationist and a retired civil servant. He holds a Masters degree in African Literature from the University of Yaounde 1 and a Certificate in Teaching Reading in a Foreign Language from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England. His poetry collections include Walls Of Agony, Chants Of A Lunatic, Strange Passions, Snatched From The Grave, Songs Of The Mind's Mind, The Teeth Of Time And Other Poems and Blot On The Landscape. He also has to his credit a play titled Battle For Survival. Some of his poems have appeared in Nedjma (Nigeria), Cameroon Anthology of Poetry and The Ngoh Kuoh Review (Cameroon).
