Makokha: Nest of Stones
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Makokha: Nest of Stones

Kenyan Narratives in Verse

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Makokha: Nest of Stones

Kenyan Narratives in Verse

About this book

Wanjohi wa Makokhas Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa Namwalies Cut off my Tongue (Storymoja: 2009), devoted in principal to the moment of the 2007-2008 Kenyan Crisis. The crisis is locally known as the Post-Election Violence (PEV). The book collects over sixty pieces of his recent verse chosen on the basis of artistic merit and social relevance. The poems focus sharply on the tumultuous period between the General Elections of 2007 and August 4th Referendum of 2010. Some of the poems relate to events drawn out of earlier moments in Kenyan history but are invoked as contexts of the recent discord. Wa Makokhas interesting narratives are written in the form of lyrical folk verse. The verses are poignant vignettes, out of experiences of different communities and regions of Kenya, serving as repositories of the memory of a tumultuous moment in the life of a nation. Nest of Stones derives its themes from the commonwealth of Kenyan experiences across ethnic and political divides. This idea of the interrelatedness of the peoples inhabiting the Kenyan space; is in a way, a veritable interrogation of the imagined community leitmotif most often recoursed to when analyzing the tensions of co-existence in the postcolonial world. The heart of these amazing poems lies in Kenya but their philosophy of life is universal.

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Information

Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9789956578306
eBook ISBN
9789956579136
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Biography
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Mchongoano
  10. Lament of Chetambe
  11. The Voice of Mvita
  12. At the Truth and Justice Court Marshall
  13. The Qiyama Address to a Talkative Television
  14. Mirror of Memory
  15. Wound of Wajir
  16. The Blood-Stone Sequence
  17. Enkapune ya Muto
  18. Illeret
  19. KORE
  20. Mayienga ne waa Sudaan
  21. last supper
  22. retribution
  23. Communion of Stones
  24. Communion of Bloods
  25. Anthems of Stone
  26. kali yuga
  27. Dreams Half-Expressed
  28. Tongues of Flame
  29. Call to Manhood and Arms
  30. The Last Call
  31. Anthem of Hunger
  32. Season of Reason
  33. Portrait of the Citizen as an Exile
  34. Government Eviction
  35. Let Their Conscience Crack
  36. Waiting for Mr Law
  37. Brideprice of Tears
  38. Where Democracy Rests Peacefully is Here....
  39. Ethnicinsanity
  40. Lines of the Country Within
  41. Opinion Polls Twisty
  42. Elegy of Escapees from the East
  43. Mundu khu Mundu
  44. kenya
  45. Sacrifices
  46. Three Words….I. D. P.
  47. Shadow of the Sun
  48. Sect of the Multitude
  49. Repentance
  50. Vision of Sacrifice
  51. Return of Hope
  52. Peace on the Leaves of Heaven
  53. Statue of Bones
  54. At the Stone Bench
  55. The Sheng’sphere Sequence
  56. In the Shadow of Dedan Kimathi
  57. a nation of advocates
  58. Degree-Oozing Mendicants of Boulevard Vision 2030
  59. Cure by Fire
  60. Reconciliation
  61. the still small voice
  62. My Other Mother
  63. NgetaAATHRRrchokelykkg!
  64. 2008
  65. Relatives for Hire
  66. The Wailing of Uncle B
  67. At the Gates of Mists
  68. Tears of Fish
  69. Green Card West
  70. Crying Stone of Apolilia
  71. Harambee
  72. End of an Error
  73. Soul Retrieval
  74. Address to the First Republic
  75. TRIBUTES
  76. About the Book
  77. Back Cover