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Nigger For Life

Nigger For Life, by Neal Hall, is a critically acclaimed anthology of verse reflecting the poet’s painful, later life discovery, that in “unspoken America," race is the one thing on which one is “first” judged, by which he is “first” measured and  against which his life and accomplishments are metered. In short, race is everything to do with accessing choice, opportunity, power and freedom in America. According to Beth Richie of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the  “images and issues addressed in Nigger For Life are tremendously important to our [African American] people and the academic field of African American Studies.”
Nigger For Life’s website: www.surgeonpoet.com

Lamentations

Chris Nwamuo's collection, Lamentations, nurtured away from the Nigerian environment provides him with a new impetus, new vision from which he objectifies the Nigerian context. Therefore he can produce poems like "Song of Creation," "New Yam", "Bound In Chains", "Tears of Sorrow", "Song of Peace", "Biafra Forgotten”, Lament for Life," "Pol Ndu Remembered", all in which "everlasting green plant/in contact with mother earth", becomes the "good tape we embrace in another year" with thanks (ndewo). While, as "the wheel of death rolls by" our hearts "pierce with scores of swords in a battle of thoughts", till we reach "the enclave …loaded with fire. . . " till the hills "are green again."

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Publishers: AP Publications

Full Moon

Full Moon volume of poetry is all about taking imaginative action, to let the landscape of images free and unfettered, to explore horizons beyond the ken of everyday awareness. In this awareness of self, says the poet, both of us - poet and reader- are engaged in a discourse, a communion of sorts running through time or harking back in the past. In Full Moon we are invited to a world where the quest for perpetual insights, for the advancement of the imaginative faculties, takes precedence over all other quests. This undertaking, we are told, begins from the point where we express the nudge to find inner freedom which when illuminated shall fructify in the release of new images of understanding. Old viewpoints lose or add to their original meaning and a whole fresh vista of cognition emerges.

Publishers: Handel Books

African Dirge Poetry

An important contribution to research in African literature leading to a theory of African dirge poetry drawn from constant recurring points in that genre of writing. We meet, in this seminal work, various categories of African mourners. They are the conjurers of images and weavers of emotions manipulating human feelings and sensitivity by such admirable craftsmanship as can only be known to those gifted bards of all ages.

Publishers: Handel Books

Gamji College

A humorous collection of short fiction narratives by the author of Children of Koloko. Here Chin Ce displays his admirable craft in dialogue in his portraiture of characters who only reflect the modern sensitivities of Africa's dying values.

Publishers: Handel Books

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