“A Name that is Mine is an enriching contribution to
Anglophone Cameroon literary aesthetics today; a contribution which
highlights the poetics of Self that pervades Mbuh Tennu Mbuh’s writing.
This collection of poems is unique in its representation of topical
issues that animate life in transnational and geopolitical spaces.
Amongst other things, the poems are teeming with postmodernist,
postchristian, and postcolonial rhetoric which culminate in
interrogating the “ideologies of a nameless creed” that is couched in
the Graeco-Roman foundations of “civilisation”. The reader will find
delight in accompanying the poet/post… subject through the struggle to
“unstrap” the Self from the subterfuge models of life designed to
deprive him of the name that is truly his—his identity. I daresay no
reader will be disappointed by the jouissance derived from Mbuh’s
linguistic finesse that blends the formal, the colloquial, and the local
into exquisite poesy.”
