Predicaments
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2011
98 pages
978-9956-716-75-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this juvenalia, his first collection of poems, Francis Nyamnjoh takes the reader back in time, even as the past catches up with the present, to show how unchanging and even painful life can be. Accordingly, the poems celebrate, mourn, ridicule, lambast, and lament, thereby highlighting Nyamnjohis characteristic fascination with the plight of the person in society, a picture which reaffirms his already established role as the conscience of spaces, especially those African.
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Learning and Leading
- When Around Libraries
- Tribute to Madam Philomina Ndond Bawak
- Flight from Science
- The Genuine Intellectual
- To the Leader
- A Madman
- The Work of a Leader
- When the Jujus Fell Like One
- 2. Is Love an Illusion?
- Is She for Men?
- Love Token
- A New Year Illusion
- Love Hunger
- Loveline
- A Loveful Message
- 3. Sharp and Brusque
- In a Wink
- Depart Not!
- Sharp and Brusque
- The Baby
- To Pay her Lover's Bils
- 4. Do Ordinary People Exist?
- Light
- All Along
- 5. Fathers and Sons
- One is Enough
- Son
- The Dilemma
- 6. Outrage and Hope
- Christmas
- Destiny
- No More
- The Lone Culprit
- Salvation
- Masa
- You
- Volatile Dreams
- 7. Ignorance and Freedom
- Remark!
- Enemies
- Solutions
- 8. Power and Resistance
- The Whitemen of God
- Music that Harms
- A Complex Situation
- The Rumour Went
- My Grievous Bed
- He Died in Peace on Deck
- Resolutions
- Amok!
- But in Them All
- Yet
- Eruptions
- Reassurance
- 9. Peacemakers
- My Duty
- Dregs of War
- Makers of Peace
- Quelque Chose
- 10. Certain and Uncertain
- What the Wise Say
- Show me to Bamenda
- All Have Changed
- I'm Certain
- The Ambiguity of Hazards
- Back cover
