A Name That Is Mine
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A Name That Is Mine

  1. 98 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Name That Is Mine

About this book

In this poetry collection, Mbuh Mbuh Tennu offers a virulent indictment of the multifarious faces of pain which have lent a dystopian colouring to our world. These poems are all at once, songs of lament, regret, defiance and protest. The idea of naming which is a central motif underscores the dangers of being foreign named; which implies being claimed and owned and more importantly the imperative of self-naming to claim a name and to own that name; to self-define and to defy attempts to contravene this. This is a collection for our time; our timelessness. It is an urgent, reflective and incisive call to stay awake and be actors of our history.

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Information

Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9789956550104
eBook ISBN
9789956550944
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Beginning
  7. Song of Your Nemesis
  8. Memory (form across the River)
  9. More than Tongue Can Tell
  10. A Name that I Know
  11. Still Waiting for Doom
  12. Oath of New Patriots
  13. Mystory
  14. A Song of Freedom
  15. The Patriot
  16. Blame You!
  17. The Failed Courtship
  18. Naïve no More
  19. February 11, 2017
  20. The Gospel of Peace
  21. Leaving the Promised Land
  22. Shadows of Fear
  23. In New York, they Only Talk, Always?
  24. En Route to exile
  25. At the Crossroads
  26. Hail my Teacher, the Master
  27. December 31, 2012
  28. New Year Resolution, 2013
  29. Ngoundou Day
  30. Communal Wisdom
  31. Shit-Shiners (for Gobata & TM)
  32. A New Year Rose
  33. Pre-Mortem for the Fatherland
  34. Ah-ya-mo Spot, Nkwen
  35. Un-Nodding Cock, 5a.m., after Nol Alembong
  36. Feeling Blank
  37. The Fall of a Colonel
  38. For Mandela
  39. My Chairman
  40. My Salute for You, Abouem à Tchoyi
  41. For a National Uncle
  42. For Achebe, A Tribute
  43. For Ali Mazrui, a farewell
  44. For Abouem à Tchoyi, Afterthought
  45. Soyinka’s Tears Today
  46. Abiku Revisited
  47. Reminiscences of the Sabbath
  48. After reading W.B. Yeats, Again
  49. The Making of Genocide
  50. The Sanaga, Midnight
  51. Prayer
  52. Ghost Towns
  53. The Exodus
  54. The Curfew
  55. The Poet (for Colbert, Q&A)
  56. Still I Dream
  57. The Final Moment
  58. Aghem Boy, After Q&A, December 15, 2018 (for Jay-Eff)
  59. In Memoriam (for Prof P.K. Mbufong)
  60. Epilogue: Menka Blues (To those who know why they cry)
  61. The End
  62. Back cover