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The Beggars' Song
These poems are from Pious Okoro, poet, biologist, sketch artist, journalist and pastor, is a graduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Chicago State University, USA. He is the 1998 winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award in Chicago and has read his poetry at literary events in Nigeria and USA. An erstwhile journalist with Sunday Newspaper in Nigeria, he has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of the poetry volume, Vultures of Fortune (Kraft Griot Books, 2011).
We Have Crossed Many Rivers
We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time, they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and generational relations representative of the African continent. Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank Chipasula are inlcluded and in all there are contributions from 68 poets.
Lupenga Mphande
Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who is arguably Africa’s first poet to explore the existence of territorial cults and natural shrines. This book is recommended for students and scholars seeking new interpretations of the African experience in contemporary world literature.
Repentance from Dead Works
The Holy Bible, "the Book Nobody Knows," as described by one Bruce Barton, is a book of ancient stories, prophecies, and wisdom literatures. But the Bible does have other specific themes. It contains specific teachings, knowledge and instructions on the purposes of the Creator and His plan for human salvation. In the series, The Foundation of Biblical Faith, the foundational knowledge and teachings of the Scriptures and treated in-depth. In this volume 1, Repentance from Dead Works, you will learn about the meaning of Biblical repentance and your need for it; sin, its effects, how the Creator views it, and the need to turn from it; the law and its purposes; the Levitical and Melchizedek priesthoods, sacrifices and their meanings and purposes. You will also learn the place of true deliverance in repentance and its relationship with the law. The book defines Repentance, shows the place and functions of Biblical Laws in Repentance, and shows the difference between the Levitical sacrificial laws and the Laws in the first five Books of the Bible. It gives a Biblical example of true repentance, discusses obstacles to true repentance, and shows the need for true deliverance in repentance.
The Tale of the Harmattan
In this collection, Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide adopts the persona of a homeboy griot returning from travels to be confronted by the devastation wrought by oil greed, politics, and technology upon his beloved Niger Delta; its environment, civilisation and people. It becomes a tragedy of corruption, suffering and dispossession in sharp contrast to the eco-sensitive animism of his youth. Angry, elegiac and lyrical, this collection allows the reader insight far beyond the reach of journalism or prose.
A Torrent of Terror
Rome Aboh's poetry unmistakably enwraps the condition of the politically and socially cannibalised segment of his society; and the beauty of the verse radiates from his facility with language as the stylist and linguist. The section "patriotism" with such poems as "hour of truth" aptly brings out the socially obligatory role of the poets whose mission goes beyond versifying and sharing their personal fantasies and urges. Similarly the poem "letter to the mp" echoes the agonies of the common masses who feel deceived by the ruling elite in their so-called democratic nations.
The Fourth Masquerade
As one of the most important Nigerian poets who continue to write the nation in verse, Yeibo, in this fifth collection of poems, has strategically fashioned a kind of poetry that does not only derive its idiom from the prosody and folk tradition of the Izon of Nigeria, it equally advances the poet’s vision through form and structure. His recourse to folklore and reliance on oral materials in the image making process gives coherence and form to the poems. However, what distinguishes this collection from the previous ones is the question of the form through which he demonstrates an intense awareness of the Nigerian experience.
Fate and Faith
In Fate and Faith Tunde Adeniran the polemicist celebrated nature, people and the omnipotence of god. There are striking images of a society in need of restoration. Adeniran writes with passion and sometimes with anger but not without the subtlety of a patriotic poet concerned about the future of his people.
Songs of Myself: Quartet
Songs of Myself: Quartet is deeply rooted in the indigenous African poetic tradition. The great udje poets first composed songs paying tribute to the god of songs, followed by songs of self-exhortation,and then songs mocking themselves before satirizing others. This collection incorporates some of these aspects of the oral poetic genre in its four-part structure. It deals with self-examination and the minstrel’s alter-ego as a way of attempting to know himself. So, there is self-mockery that justifies mocking others. The four parts of the collection are: “Pulling the Thread of the Loom,” “Songs of Myself,” “Songs of the Homeland Warrior,” and “Secret Love and Other Poems.”
Birthcry
With unspeakable tenderness and palpable trepidation, Nigerian poet Obi Nwakanma captures the universal experience of childbirth. From his earlier collection The Horsemen and Other Poems, Nwakanma has become a “sojourner from a tangled past traveling to an uncertain future”, trying to root, shape and steel his unborn child to a world filled with graphic horror and indescribable wonder. Along the way he meets his muse, the sixteenth century mystical Indian poet Mirabai, and recites Elizabeth Bishop over tea. Thematically, Bithcry is intimate, lyrical and unrestrained while retaining a measured, coherent and precise form.
