Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Barbed Forest draws from the socio-political character of
society—specific societies sometimes. It navigates its way from the
political to the familial and ultimately personal concerns of humankind
before projecting the positive “humanist vision” of which the poet cum
freedom songster dreams.
£18.00
About the author
Dr. Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, critic, translator & Fellow of The Booker T. Washington Leadership Institute is an American-Southern Cameroonian who was educated at GBHS Bamenda & Essos, the University of Yaoundé, Nigeria: ABSU, Paris: ISIT, the Sorbonne, Paris VIII & Cergy-Pontoise where he obtained his doctorate degrees in Languages: Translation and Languages, Literatures and Contemporary Civilizations. He has held teaching positions at the Paris School of Languages, the University of the Sunshine Coast at Sippy Downs, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is presently Professor of Modern Languages, Communication and Philosophy at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA.
Review
“Different streams of poetic inspiration energise this collection of poems: the power of the writer’s pen to ‘sing liberty’; the political present; the political past; the family and the child; and what I would call ‘the humanist vision’. This collection could take us on a path from political despair to humanist hope.”
Beornn McCarthy, Literary Studies, University of Melbourne/Deakin University
“An artistic take on the colonial forces of repression and regression
akin to those in La République du Cameroun of today, Barbed Forest
evokes the forceful occupation and caging in of the Forest and
Grassfields Regions of British Southern Cameroons. These are acerbic
pieces authoritatively delivered such that they name and shame the
culprits.”
Emmanuel Fru Doh, Century College, Minnesota
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