Author: Kishani, Bongasu Tanla Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bold, original and stimulating in its inspirational insights, A Basket of Kola Nuts explores Cameroon's cultures as remarkable pivots of moral rectitude and such sickening vicious-circles as bribery a...
Author: Ngolle-Metuge, Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Anxiety In Mosaic is a sum up of a man's fears and hopes into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-politic...
Author: Mattera, Don Publisher: African Perspectives Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helpe...
Author: Ndi, Bill F. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bill NDI's Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a parago...
Author: Walker, Frank X Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: " Winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 A BookSense 76 Spring 2004 Top 10 Poetry Book! Read an excerpt from the book Listen to Frank X Walker reading on NPR's ""This I Believe"" seg...
Author: Metelerkamp, Joan Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh colllection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of ...
Author: Mutia, Ba'bila Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that woul...
Author: Frost, Sarah Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sarah Frost is 37 years old and a single mother to a six year old boy. She works as an editor for Juta Legalbrief in Durban, South Africa. Sarah has been writing poetry for the past fourteen years. Sh...
Author: Alobwed'Epie, Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Crying in Hiccoughs is a graphic presentation of the more realistic phase of Africa's politico-economic and historico-moral evolution in general, and Cameroon's, in particular. From the colonial to th...
Author: Garisch, Dawn Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dawn Garisch is a doctor who writes, a poet who walks, a researcher who dances. She lives in Cape Town near the mountain and the sea and has two grown sons. Her last novel, Trespass, was nominated for...
Author: Alembong, Nol Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Forest Echoes is a literary quilt revealing a mature poet bestriding generations as he patches together a people's culture, their philosophy, history, along with their attendant woes into a subtle, so...
Author: Hall, Megan Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Megan Hall's first collection of poems, Fourth Child, has the texture of a carefully wrought, hand-stitched garment. It is something you want to bury your face in, like the familiar scented fabric of ...
Author: Wakai, Kangsen Feka Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Fragmented Melodies is a seminal, introspective work of exceptional freshness and contemplative diction transmitted in an enriched style that immediately grasps the reader's attention. Between Part I...
Author: Vakunta, Peterkins Wuteh Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment is an anthology of poems written in strong support of environmental literacy. Each poem is the poet's cry of protest against the rape of natural and built enviro...
Author: Ndi, Bill F. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Bill Ndi vociferously bemoans the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfellows; a world wherein miscreants proceed with nausea...
Author: Higgs, Colleen Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Colleen Higgs launched Modjaji Books, the first publishing house for southern African women writers, in 2007. Her first collection of poetry, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004. She lives in Cape T...
Author: Nkengasong, John Nkemngong Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this rich and compelling collection of poems the author explores the recesses of the imagination to reveal the different facets of contemporary experience. In doing this he highlights the social, t...
Author: Vakunta, Peter Wuteh Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially ...
Author: Rycroft, Beverly Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beverly Rycroft was born in the Eastern Cape. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked as a teacher for several years before turning full ti...
Author: Ndi, Bill F. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A literary monument erected by a poet for poets with a vision for poetry as a special annunciation and the poet as a seer, spokesperson, recorder, analyst, adjudicator and advocate with poetic vision ...
Author: Makokha, Wanjohi wa Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wanjohi wa Makokha's Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa NamwalieÌs Cut off my Tongue (Storymoja: 2009), devoted in principal to the moment of the 2007-2008 Ke...
Author: Rachilo, Sol Publisher: African Perspectives Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself ...
Author: Doh, Emmanuel Fru Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Not Yet Damascus celebrates a tumultuous era without patriotic leaders willing to transform their national wastelands into thriving bastions. The collection salutes and queries: a panoramic collection...
Author: Zerbst, Fiona Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Oleander explores life's complexities, both beautiful and poisonous-love, death, art, the aftermath of war and genocide, travel, religion, revelation. More wide-ranging than Zerbst's previous volumes,...
Author: Andersen, Ingrid Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ingrid Andersen was born in Johannesburg, read for a degree in English literature at Wits and is presently completing her Masters. Her work has been published in literary journals for 16 years. Excisi...
Author: Magona, Sindiwe Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sindiwe Magona's poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the ...
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Author: Ngolle-Metuge, Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How else does the ramified phenomenon of greed (corruption, nepotism, extreme self-aggrandizement, megalomanic tendencies etc) become nefarious to both the physical and mental worlds of a people eithe...
Author: Butler, Melissa Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Melissa Butler lives in Cape Town and Pittsburgh, PA. In the US, she teaches kindergarten. In South Africa, she writes and works with pre schools in the Eastern Cape. She has a Masters degree in Curri...
Author: Doh, Emmanuel Fru Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shadows, as the title insinuates, splits open and lays bare the frightening vision of humanity, the heart of man depressed, a veritable inferno in which there is little to be enjoyed and everything to...
Author: Mbunda, Frida Menkan Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first volume of a patriotic poet whose heart is on fire. The poems touch on a variety of issues, some personal and private, other public - past and current. They range from family, love an...
Author: Inyang, Ekpe Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of poems spans a wide range of themes and subjects, including culture, politics, socio-economics, environment, and human rights. The poems are a reflection of Ekpe Inyang's close conta...
Author: Ndi, Bill F. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sing Love 101 is a billicious gourmet platter with 101 love poems in which this wordsmith worth his words brings together the good, the bad and the ugly of human love experiences. The poems are glosse...
Author: Ngong, John Ngong Kum Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Snatched from the Grave, an exciting and provocative collection of 46 poems, traces the path taken by the protagonist to find real lifelong satisfaction and peace in a turbulent, perilous and ruthless...
Author: Moffett, Helen Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Strange Fruit is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic to the bawdy, and to the angry, the melancholic and the steadfast and comforting. It wi...
Author: Ngong, John Ngong Kum Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Strange Passions John Ngong Kum Ngong's vocation and prime obsession remain constant - the soul of the nation. Passion, the central symbol in this collection is the patriotic sentiment in its vario...
Author: Mbuh, Mbuh Tennu Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is a lecturer in the English Department, University of Yaounde I. A pioneer member of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers Association (ACWA) and a Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar, Tennu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bate Besong was Cameroon's most vocal and controversial poet, playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a snapshot...
Author: Hammerton, Kerry Publisher: Modjaji Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kerry Hammerton is a poet, writer and alternative health practitioner. She is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (Reading, ...
Author: Ndi, Bill F. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bill Ndi's Toil and Delivery can be as playful and loaded as the clues in a cryptic crossword puzzle, which is to say that they are marked by a strange, energetic hybridity. They occupy a dynamic spac...
Author: Monique, Kwachou Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Writing therapy is a varied collection of poems of a brisk, forward taste. The poet uses her poems as a form of expression of the harmonies and tensions that reassure and perturb the mind, heart and S...
Author: Chase von Publisher: VonChasePublishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Author/Publisher's Note Chase von, the author of this book has recently had a story he wrote included in this publication featured in the 2007 American Review Literary Journal Vol. I, edited b...
Author: Walker, Frank Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: " Winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 A BookSense 76 Spring 2004 Top 10 Poetry Book! Read an excerpt from the book Listen to Frank X Walker reading on NPR's ""This I Believe"" seg...
Author: Adams, Ayin M. Publisher: Pacific Raven Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kwanzaa is a celebratory period of seven days from December 26 - January 1 that acknowledges spirit, the ancestors, and seven principles for living more harmoniously in a ritual that is popular with m...
Author: Tande, Dibussi Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: No Turning Back relives the tumultuous beginnings of Africa's democratization experiment in the early 1990s. The main theme of the collection is an investment in hope and in the resilience of Africans...
Author: Doh, Emmanuel Fru Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ORIKI'BADAN, is an entertaining, revealing, and equally didactic poem in which Doh, through an enchanting metaphorical backdrop, recaptures a memorable era-rich, diverse, challenging, yet gratifying-i...
Author: Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
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. Ac...
Author: Doh, Emmanuel Fru Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wading the Tide is an expression of profound emotions touching on a wide range of issues-personal and political-from the birth of the Cameroon nation, her political meandering, until the state of emer...
