TY - BOOK ID - 77944767 TI - On the other side of fifty & rays of lamentation PY - 2013 SN - 9956790915 9956790907 9789956790906 1299666914 9781299666917 9789956790913 9956790044 PB - Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, DB - UniCat KW - Cameroonian poetry (English) KW - Cameroon poetry (English) KW - English poetry KW - Cameroonian literature (English) KW - Laments KW - African poetry (English) KW - African literature (English) KW - Complancha KW - Lamentations KW - Elegiac poetry KW - Mourning customs KW - African authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944767 AB - This collection dissects post-independence Cameroon as a representative postcolonial junction. The history that assists in the writing of the poems is a necessary background to understand the dislocated vision of an erstwhile independent territory. After a patriotic pastime of sweeping every bit of rubbish under the carpet of national unity for over fifty years, the collection summons us to introspect on the consequences of feeding and living on a national lie. It is only after such reflection that, hopefully, remedial gestures can offer ënew dreams on the dawn of new sleepí. ER -