JOHN PAUL II AND AFRICA is Africa’s little tribute to a Polish orphan robbed by death of all - father, mother, brother, sister, and almost even self - but would become all to everyone - a Philosopher, Theologian, Author and Pope.  It is as it should be for like Christ, or even more than Christ, he was adopted by the whole world, Jews and Gentiles, Christians and non-Christians, young and old.  In his humble way, he meant a lot to everyone but something special to the Catholic Church in Africa.

Library of Congress Card Cat. No: BX1378.5.M49 2005

ISBN: 978-0-87831-000-5

This second collection of poems, essays and stories represents a more deliberate attempt at  poetic and esthetic experimentation.  For a long time after Songs of the Hearth (1993), I sincerely believed  that I would not be able to write any more poetry.  I felt that within that first volume is contained every possible range of emotions, desires, prayers and so on.

WHO IS AFRAID OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS?

Nigeria and the world have watched, with studied silence and stupefaction, the macabre political and electoral dance on a circus trampoline going on in the country. The nation had performed similar dances of death before, from 1963 - 1965, from 1981-1983, from 1991-1993 and now the continuing current dance that started in 2001. The players, many of whom were there as major actors from 1963 through 1970, seem to have learned nothing from history and gained less from experience. Power is transient and corrupting and absolute power not only corrupts absolutely but vanishes like a meteor leaving in its stead disaster and regrets. The same processus has started.

A History of Africana Women's Literature contains a selection of essays  by notable Feminist/Womanist scholars  exploring the lives of  Black  women in different socio-cultural, linguistic and religious milieux, using a cross-disciplinary perspective.  The book offers  portraits of women actually seen to move beyond mere socio-gender protests against marginalization and voicelessness to a much-desired phase of dynamic socio-political / intellectual activism and self-actualization -- leading to a recovery and an effective use of the female voice.  Fictive or real, women of this anthology all have a history of activism that can be traced  even to pre-colonial Africa and its orality.

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Black Nationalist
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