A Pattern of Dust: Selected poems 1965-1990By:Timothy Wangusa(Eds) Release date:1994 Language:English
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Dance of the IntellectBy:Alice J.K. Tumwesigye Dance of the Intellect collects poems written over a long period. They are a materialisation of the many stories, comments, experiences and observations that inspire lives in Africa. With a unique power of imagination, just like a village seer, in a simple and poignant rendition, Alice J.K. Tumwesigye invites her audience to see her world view. Alice J.K. Tumwesigye is the Head of Department Languages and Literature at Bishop Stuart University Mbarara, in western Uganda. She says writing poetry is as close to her heart as is the nose to the mouth. She has written extensively as a critic of the Romanticist writers, including writing on one of Uganda's best, Henry Barlow. -The collection represents an artistic journey of self discovery on which the reader accompanies the poet- Professor Laban Erapu, author, Shared Lives. -Dance of the Intellect confirms the assertion that poetry is the opium of literal intelligentsia. The provocation of the poems while maintaining humility and innocence is a welcome genre- Professor Nicci Nilson, Newcastle University, UK. Release date:2011 Language:English
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Hybridity and Christopher Okigbo's PoetryBy:Christopher W. N. Kirunda Dr. Kirunda’s thesis is the most ambitious and comprehensive study yet produced on the work of the major Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo. His impressive scholarship and fine critical readings of the poems demonstrate how Okigbo draws on both African and European traditions to express and explore post-colonial African experience. There can be no return to an idealised African past, and there can be no satisfactory adoption of the culture of the colonisers as a substitute for it. The post-colonial world is one in which new uses are made of available cultural resources, European and African, and a hybrid identity takes shape in the tensions between them. Dr Kirunda has demonstrated a theoretical command of the debates around Okigbo, a scholarly understanding of Okigbo’s poetic strategies and use of other traditions, and an independent and generous critical grasp Release date:2010 Language:English
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Omulanga gwa LawinoBy:Abasi Kiyingi (translator) This is a rich text that forms the basis for a deep interrogation of a broad range of issues relating to the native philosophy of the African peoples as it clashes with the West. It deals with issues of worship, origins of life, social organization, life after death, work and education, kinship, notions of time, food, etc. Omulanga gwa Lawino Abasi Kiyimba kyavvuunudde mu Luganda nga Omulanga gwa Lawino, kitabo kigagga nnyo, era kisobola okukola ng’entandikwa okukubaganya ebirowoozo ku nsonga nnyingi ezikwata ku by’obuwangwa, ensinza, eby’enjigiriza, emizannyo, emirimu, ennyambala, n’ebyenfuga ku semazinga wa Afirika. Release date:2014 Language:English
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Voices of Silence: PoemsBy:Christopher W. N. Kirunda That silence can have a voice is an ideal example of the various ways by which poetry defamiliarises ordinary language to create a sense of instructive delight. In Christopher Kirunda’s verse we are cleverly enticed to read on by the very curious title of the book, by the oxymoron comprised by the amalgam of apparent opposites, sound and silence. And between the two covers, we are treated to an auditory feast that stretches from the poet’s bubbling juvenilia of the mid 1970s to the reflective “maturalia” of his later years. Release date:2012 Language:English
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