Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Stop Press/ Tribute To Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Editorial Article: Fiction & Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do?
- The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari Ma Njirũũngi
- Abiku in Ben Okri’s Imagination of Nationhood: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial Politics
- Refracting the Political: Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Resolutionaries: 47 Exoteric Fiction, the Common People & Social Change in Post-Colonial Africa – A Critical Review
- In Quest of Social Justice: 58 Politics & Women’s Participation in Irene Isoken Salami’s More Than Dancing
- Breaking the Laws in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus – Philosophy & the Notion of Justice
- The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa: A Logical Positivist Reading of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari
- ‘Manhood’ in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty: Authenticity or Accountability?
- Remembering Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935–21 September 2013)
- Reviews
Song for Nyidevu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Stop Press/ Tribute To Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Editorial Article: Fiction & Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do?
- The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari Ma Njirũũngi
- Abiku in Ben Okri’s Imagination of Nationhood: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial Politics
- Refracting the Political: Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Resolutionaries: 47 Exoteric Fiction, the Common People & Social Change in Post-Colonial Africa – A Critical Review
- In Quest of Social Justice: 58 Politics & Women’s Participation in Irene Isoken Salami’s More Than Dancing
- Breaking the Laws in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus – Philosophy & the Notion of Justice
- The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa: A Logical Positivist Reading of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari
- ‘Manhood’ in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty: Authenticity or Accountability?
- Remembering Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935–21 September 2013)
- Reviews
Summary
They say the Panther died in his Sleep
But not without a Leap.
The Hippo drowned in a Pool of Blood
But with a gentle Smile on his Face.
So you took Death by the Hand
brought him Home
to a Harvest of Ancestral Songs.
You took down his Battle Dress
gave him a Gown of Flames
wrapped in Laughter’s Tender Care
You removed the Thunder from his Voice
the Lightning from his Eyes.
You placed a Rainbow on his Face.
You explained to Death
How and Why he must be Brave
Turn his Back upon the Grave
So the Children in their Sleep
May Dream the Future
Filled with Hope The Promise of Hope.
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- Politics and Social JusticeAfrican Literature Today 32, pp. 173Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014