Corpses of unity : an anthology of poems / edited by Nsah Mala & Mbizo Chirasha = Cadavres de l'unité : une anthologie de poèmes / dirigé par Nsah Mala & Mbizo Chirasha.

Poems in English and French.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020).

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Préface : 'Untermensch' en colonie et néocolonie camerounaises -- Prophètes de Bonheur -- Editors' Note -- Publisher's Perspective -- The Price of War -- Sinners in the Hands of Sinners -- la saison des armes -- Things They All Do -- Will of Suppression -- La Guerre a gagné -- Ngarbuh Massacre -- Abakwa -- Maybe Rudolf -- Crème de Cendre -- What a Weakness -- Ceremony of the Unattended -- L'Obscurité du jour -- The Fall of Tyrants -- Les Enfants du Président -- Cameroon, the Valley of Death -- Google Southern Cameroons and Shame on Us, All!

La Jungle nous a surpris -- Cameroon Rouge -- Cécité -- 2017-2019 Earthquake -- The Quake of an Innocent Corpse -- Mon Afrique -- Things Fall Apart -- la rue est une femme -- The Politics of Deafness -- On ne compte pas les cadavres noirs -- Lines and Tongues -- Ma Maison -- Majority and Minority -- Cameroun! -- It's Midnight in Yaoundé -- Her Silence -- Ballot or Barre -- La Parodie -- Martha -- Victims -- Disent les victimes dans leur silence -- Miracles -- Brother's Plea -- buvons, mon frère -- Golden Star from the Mud -- Les Anges de la mort -- To the One I Miss -- Our Hearts Are Heavy

La Douleur -- Genocide -- Sceptres without Scruples I, II & III -- L'Entre-Deux -- Let It Stop, the Crying Fire! -- Il faut enfin la paix -- The Night -- Tumultuous Times -- Je vis sans vie -- Why casting slur on your fellowman ...? -- To You in Ambazonia -- Cartes corporelles et virtuelles -- Cry the Beloved Country -- When Will the War Be Over? -- Les armes et l'école -- Free at Last -- Bezimbi le Soldat de Plomb -- Dawn Shall Come -- Contributors' Bio Notes -- Back Cover

Cameroon is no longer a peace-haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the avoidable but worsening and under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon. Written in English and French, the anthology brings together thirty-three poets from thirteen countries in Africa and beyond. The poets are concerned with the blood baths, burnings and other crimes committed in Anglophone Cameroon in the name of unity or division. Their poems paint raw images of the cruel killings of old people, pregnant women and children like those of #NgarbuhMassacre. They excavate the hidden mass graves and unveil the countless villages reduced to ashes and rubble. They recall the burning of animals and food and the brutal killing of nurses, patients and teachers. Their stanzas meander along with refugees in forests into Nigeria, into the jungles of Mexico en route to the US, and elsewhere. It is poetry speaking for human life and dignity, for peace and education, for inclusive dialogue, for reconciliation. It is poetry which should ruffle the consciences of those doing business in war, those pulling strings behind curtains, those who see oil before humans, those who trigger guns at their own brothers, sisters and parents, those who give orders to kill--in short, those who enjoy warfare as they profit from the spoils of war. This anthology seeks to raise global awareness on this forgotten war as a way of contributing to justice, healing, and peace in Cameroon.

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