Bites of Insanity

Nsah Mala

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9789956792672
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956792092
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Poetry
• Index: Literature

In this collection of poems Nsah Mala casts a critical compassionate gaze at the predicaments in the lives of present day Cameroonians. The poet lambasts power abuse in Cameroon and Africa. He decries the lost glory of traditional values sacrificed at the altar of ingratiation and materialism. Insalubrities are condemned, ignorance and its ramifications satirised, and wanton destruction of the environment indicted. With a fascinating richness of imagery, Mala conveys the disillusionment, bitterness and traumas of ordinary Cameroonians young and old debased with impunity by the lethal and sterile grip on power of the high and might. The moral depravity and human frailties mused about in this exceptionally compelling collection have no room in Malas paradise of Cameroon.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Foreword
• When the poet philosophizes and advises…
• When the poet peeps on state matters and observes politics…
• When the poet puts on traditional regalia and plays ancestral music…
• When the poet remembers people in society for diverse reasons…
• When the poet sings to motivate and venerates his Muses…
• When the poet nauseates as decency, morality and dignity are slaughtered…
• When the poets laments social decay, reckless accidents and deaths…
• When the poet decries the desecration of hygiene/sanitation and environment…
• When the poet bemoans Man’s distortion of the ecological balance…
• When the poet fires ink and papers against mosquitoes and disease sources…
• Back cover