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Waterman
Echezonachukwu Nduka's sophomore poetry collection, Waterman, situates itself in enchanting musicality while exploring themes on innocence, memory, religion, music, and the complex corridors of political history. In Waterman, the metaphysical is interspersed with the quotidian, the philosophical, leaving us with timeless writing that takes readers on a journey of imagination and the rediscovery of humanity in all its glories and shortcomings.A concert pianist of Nigerian origin, Nduka's Waterman is symphonic, reflective, evocative, yet damning. This book is, in many ways, a testament to how the author views the world through the lens of music.
Chrysanthemums for Wide-Eyed Ghosts
A collection of thematically linked poems in seven sections, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts explores the intersections of death, love, music, wine, and the otherworldly. In the pursuit of answers to gradations of relationships and absences, questions give rise to more questions delivered with captivating imagery, rhythmic variations, and humor. Born and raised in Nigeria, Echezonachukwu Nduka is a writer and classical pianist who earned degrees in Music from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Kingston University London, UK. His work has appeared in Transition, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, River River, Bombay Review, Brittle Paper, Expound, Saraba, Jalada Africa, Afridiaspora, Bakwa Magazine, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, African Writer, Ake Review, A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, among others. In 2016, he was awarded the Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize. He lives in New Jersey. Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts is his debut collection.
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Dotard
Dotard traverses through thousand terrains. Some soothing. Some aching. From global to local politico-economic issues to socio-religious literary expressions. Dotard graphically and systematically draws meaningful silhouettes and pictures of present events in the world and submit to readers a painting of uncertainties which could lead to doom and gloom. These intercontinental volatilities seem to have a non-consensual agreement between former allies but shows a more tacit and secret non-binding agreement between cold war foes. This should make the world nervous! Dotard is a collection of poem but also serves a book the political students, especially students of globalization and international relations can refer to at all times. Religious leaders will certainly see Dotard as a well thought out book of faith. Everyone will find Dotard a captivating poetry poet no matter where you come from because it is written in universal language.
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.
Bonfires of the Gods
In the wake of violent outbursts over the creation of a new local government area by the then military regime, two warring tribes, the Ijaws and the Itsekiris with an age-old ax to grind come head to head in a bloody and brutal battle for land ownership throwing a once peaceful and lovable city into chaos. Set in March of 1997 in the war-torn city of Warri, Nigeria, BONFIRES OF THE GODS tell heartrending fictitious accounts of real-life experiences of people who had suffered great losses during the violent outrage. It tells a story of love and hate, of life and death, and of a quest for survival in one's own homeland.
Nduka
Nduka is the story of a young man, Nduka Onuoha, son of a peasant farmer who survived a terrible illness in his childhood when every hope of his survival was lost, and his two colleagues Anizoba and Adaora all product of University of Feelniger. When Nduka finished his secondary education and passed entrance examination to University, his poor father having no money for him to continue, sought financial assistance from his brothers for Nduka to continue his education but his brothers had a contrary view. They preferred Nduka going into business because that was the only way of getting rich quickly. Denied of help and deserted, Onuoha shouldered the burden of his sons higher education all alo...
African Pianism
African Pianism refers to a style of piano music which derives its characteristic idiom from the procedures of African percussion music as exemplified in bell patterns, drumming, xylophone and mbira music. It may use simple or extended rhythmic motifs or the lyricism of traditional songs and even those of African popular music as the basis of its rhythmic phrases. It is open ended as far as the use of tonal materials is concerned expect that it may draw on the modal and cadential characteristics of traditional music. It’s harmonic idiom may be tonal, atonal, consonant or dissonant in whole, in part, depending on the preferences of the composer, the mood or impressions he wishes to create o...
The Ugandan Tales
The book is set in Uganda and about the struggles of ordinary Africans against post independence African rulers that preach freedom and emancipation but have turned into oppressors. Ordinary people seek to reassert their rights against an intransigent regime that is determined to keep them oppressed. The poems chronicle everyday struggles that are faced at the hands of fellow Africans masquerading as Pan Africanists. Through peaceful and non violent means, a new generation of ordinary people is now taking a stand against social, political and economic segregation. This is the second poetry collection by Victor Rumanyika. His first collection "Betrayal of Hope" was released in January 2021. Victor Rumanyika is a Ugandan born writer that lives in Wolverhampton, in the United Kingdom.
Wreaths for a Wayfarer
Wreaths for a Wayfarer is an assemblage of original poems written by established and emerging African writers that celebrate Pius Adesanmi, who died in the doomed Ethiopian Airline flight on March 10, 2019.
