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 and longing; friendship and marriage, to culture, politics, corruption and death. They are cadenced and vibrant with different emotions: nostalgia, regret and outrage; loss, pain and pathos tinged with a touch of wistfulness and irony. In style and themes, they reveal a keen observer, a budding poet struggling to find her stride; to mine the shallows and the deeps of human experience, to give a unique expressive voice to the human condition. With a wide range of emotions, Mbunda touches on a variety of turbulent issues muddying the waters. But she is not without hope; she believes the volcano will only erupt if her call is unheeded.
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Shadows From The Abyss
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- In Bewilderment
- They are Corrupt
- The Justice of the Unjust
- The Wedding Feast
- Praying Amiss
- Nature
- Vogue
- Dethroning
- Orature
- The Family Calabash
- African Democracy
- The Saviors
- Unchangeable Africa
- Working His Purpose
- My Mother
- My first classroom
- Morning in my village
- My friend
- The stranger
- The lone way
- Land of Pretence
- Home Alone
- From Bondage Slavery to Free Slavery
- Another dream Deferred
- Frenches
- The Manifesto
- Someday
- The Sacrifice
- Handwriting on the wall
- The Unstoppable
- You Cannot Know
- Created in God's Name
- In the Name of the Father
- Tongue
- African, the Unkown Land
- The Ritual Drink
- Life
- Pen
- Moonlit Night
- Helpless
- Mummy
- The Obasinjom Warrior
- For Mirthful Hilarious Ambe
- Unity?
- Black
- Dance of Restoration
- Enemy-friends
- Nchindah
- The beauty of closeness
- Nonentities
- The IMS
- Fellowshipises
- My Day of passing
- Your Anniversary
- Back Cover
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