A Name That Is Mine - Mbuh, Mbuh Tennu
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"In this poetry collection, Mbuh Mbuh Tennu offers a virulent indictment of the multifarious faces of pain which have lent a dystopian colouring to "our" world. These poems are all at once, songs of lament, regret, defiance and protest. The idea of naming which is a central motif underscores the dangers of being foreign named; which implies being claimed and owned - and more importantly the imperative of self-naming - to claim a name and to own that name; to self-define and to defy attempts to contravene this. This is a collection for our time; our timelessness. It is an urgent, reflective and…mehr

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"In this poetry collection, Mbuh Mbuh Tennu offers a virulent indictment of the multifarious faces of pain which have lent a dystopian colouring to "our" world. These poems are all at once, songs of lament, regret, defiance and protest. The idea of naming which is a central motif underscores the dangers of being foreign named; which implies being claimed and owned - and more importantly the imperative of self-naming - to claim a name and to own that name; to self-define and to defy attempts to contravene this. This is a collection for our time; our timelessness. It is an urgent, reflective and incisive call to stay awake and be actors of our history." - Blossom Ngum Fondo, Associate Professor, University of Maroua
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A Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh he holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham, He is the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers' Association (ACWA), and Head of the English Department of the University of Bamenda. His other works include In the Shadow of My Country, The Death of Asobo-Ntsi, The Oracle of Tears, The Other Side of Fifty, Searching for Bate Besong, and Who is Afraid of Mongo Wa Swolenka? He has also published a couple of short stories.