Odiedo Stephen

Imanna (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

IMANNA is an epic poem on the Rwanda Genocide written using the nine-line Spenserian Stanza.

With the protean energies gifted me of the gracious Muse, "the Pearl richer than all his tribe", I have been working on IMANNA for a year now - ever since the Muse spoke my name and gifted me her flaming powers to speak of the sorrows of the dead of the Rwanda genocide. Flame haired Imanna of splendour: I feel that I am the most fortunate of men to have met you a year ago. It is an encounter which erupted into the fiery words of your wrath - and here are the lines of your rage at the outrage which is the Rwanda genocide.

IMANNA is not a political tract nor is it an act of finger-pointing over the Genocide. IMANNA is an act of witness. It is the voices of the dead seeking the one who would name their names and thus grant them "journey's end" the closure that the Genocide denied them all when they were denied burial amidst the slaughter.

Goddess I have written using Spenserian structure (because of its heroic, epic pedigree, although there is nothing heroic about the Genocide). I hope, flame haired One, that you find these lines worthy of you. I hope that your anger ceases Goddess: I hope that IMANNA will please you and that you will find the poem worthy to carry your name. I know you as the wrathful One ready to walk to the ends of the earth in search of one more of your sons and daughters of Rwanda. I know you as the wrathful One whose Flame goes forth to the darkest places of earth there to speak the name of the last one of her sons and daughters of Rwanda - and to raise the Flame high and guide them back on the sacred way to the sun-drenched Isles of bliss. I have endeavoured to carry your instructions Goddess. Nyangi Nyangiya, Imanna of splendour, triple maiden Goddess whose wrathful face darkens in an instant when mention is made of her lost ones of Rwanda: Goddess please find these my lines worthy to carry your name of Imanna of Splendour. Svelte One: I bring these lines to you as my offering to you. May you find them a worthy sacrifice, dearest Goddess.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Odiedo Stephen
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781540117816
• Artikelnr.: 56249818

Autorenporträt

In poems, plays and novels my writing dramatizes individuals confronting the fearsome might of the almighty African state in 3rd Millennium Africa: the fearful drama of lives violently torn apart on the urban African landscape - lives caught at the crossroads of modern Africa. I write on the tragic drama of lives cast adrift by the death of an anchoring ancient tradition killed by the triumphal march of the fearsome African state.

AFRAHA https://books2read.com/u/mdWjZl is the drama of lives dominated by the tragic irony that the almighty African state, the new secular god welcomed with so much hope and fanfare at independence in the last millennium, is now this fearsome monster devouring all: the "enemies of the state." As the ironic "withering of the state" gathers pace, uprooted Africans are rushing back into the past to resurrect a monstrous version of a long rejected tradition - shattering lives outcast from tradition and targeted as "enemies" by a vengeful remorseless African state unrestrained neither by tradition (discredited) nor by constitutional law (elitist, effete, ineffectual against the state).

My play TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE (https://books2read.com/u/bpjyrX) was the 1st Prize Award winner of the DAILY NATION NEWSPAPER 1995 playwriting competition. My plays have been shortlisted on BBC African Performance and BBC International Playwriting Competition. OSIRIS OF THE SLUMS - submitted to the BBC International Playwrights Competition was a finalist for the 1999 BBC International Competition.

Since my play TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE won the 1st Prize Award in the DAILY NATION NEWSPAPER playwriting competition I have continued to write poems, plays and novels thanks to the favour of the Muse herself, IMANNA of Splendour.

BARAKOA, sonnets on COVID-19, is my latest work. BARAKOA ( https://books2read.com/u/31qGpa) is a sonnet sequence on the catastrophic effects of the COVID-19 epidemic in Siaya. BARAKOA examines beliefs which (against medical reality) frightened humanity resorts to in a time of plague and the dread fears it rouses.

I thank flame-haired Imanna Goddess for her kindness.