ALL OF AFRICA BELONGS TO ME - Tecno-Libro

in All Of Africa Belongs To Me , Edward Ndopu explores facets of political and human experiences, invoking compassion and empathy in the reader. This collection of his poems shows the poet as he really is: a true son of Africa writing for his turbulent age. With eccentric twists the poems are passionate and emotional, contrasting war, freedom, poverty, corruption, violence, loss, tenderness and death. Many of the poems connect with the writer's prison experience as a SWAPO detainee in Lubango, Southern Angola, during Namibia's protracted liberation struggle and he also experiments with trying to find a voice for those less fortunate than himself. The poems are written against the backdrop of the hardship that most Africans battle every day of their lives. Ndopu's voice sorts through bruised truths and reverberant detail to deliver these poems of startling imagery and honesty. All Of Africa Belongs To Me is a landmark in the growing oeuvre of a Namibian poet whose influence has