A collection of moving poems meant to make readers ponder on things. Inspired by the Author's experiences and views in life. Endorsements The poems are strong, and what I found particularly compelling in them is the way that they make the world of myth and folktales interact with the real world, so that each seems to breach the boundaries of the other: the effect is disturbing, thought-provoking. Dr. Noam Scheindlin, Poetry Editor of Warscapes Magazine and Professor of Comparative Literature in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA These poems are superbly constructed/crafted, beautifully embroidered, skillfully latticed. The shade they create offers shelter and solace to the inquisitive mind. The language is luxuriant, seductive, and mythopoeic. Ali Jimale Ahmed, Poet, Chair and Professor, Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at the Graduate School, CUNY.
In these poems, the imaginary peculiar and the experiences lived comingle in versatile rhythms and rhymes. Whether the anthological presentation of the imaginary or the demonstration of the experiences, or whether both were coincidental is a matter for readers to decide, drawing their own perceptions of yet another imaginary tale in which the narrative leads them rather than the narrator. This is because some of the narratives exhibited here are indeed unusual and would require a great deal of patience on the part of the reader to separate what was the original imaginary and what has been encountered as peculiar experience that had disturbed the narrator prior to the narration of the odd encounter. On the other hand, the complex world of experience has a variety of underpinning factors: Is the experience in question a lived one? Is it a seen or witnessed reality? Does it relate to the imagery and imagination of the narrator, writer, author, etc.? Are the observations through the imagination and the subjects of the imagery metaphorical? Or is the experience an authorial portrayal of a social reality shared or witnessed by others? These, in my opinion, offer a reflection of how a reader-decoder will interpret the poetic narratives expressed in the verses and at their disposal. The aim, as Ive done here, is to present to the reader what to reflect on, and the type of reflection, the quality of meaning to be made out of the narrative and narration, is to be left to the reader. This is what I have done in many of the poems in this collection.
r. Eno's poetry represents a beautiful corona amidst the earlier African poetry. - Prof. Monica Nalyaka W. Mweseli, Dept. of Literature, University of Nairobi Eno writes about inequality, marginalization and oppression, among others, combining the English language with a writing style that shows an interrelationship between social thought and environment. - Saturday Nation, (Kenya) Dr. Eno, through his thought provoking and candid poems, opens a wound that many Kenya scholars must rise up and heal. The book is a mastery of the true character of African leaders who, supported by our scholars, plunder our national resources. It is also written in an African setting depicting situations such as happening in Somalia. It should be a must buy for our politicians and scholars who, when close to power, become so disconnected from the masses to a level where oppression of the marginalized, the questionable wealth of the illiterates/criminals and of leaders become the norm rather than the exception.- Victor Bwire, THE PEOPLE (Kenya)
r. Eno's poetry represents a beautiful corona amidst the earlier African poetry. - Prof. Monica Nalyaka W. Mweseli, Dept. of Literature, University of Nairobi Eno writes about inequality, marginalization and oppression, among others, combining the English language with a writing style that shows an interrelationship between social thought and environment. - Saturday Nation, (Kenya) Dr. Eno, through his thought provoking and candid poems, opens a wound that many Kenya scholars must rise up and heal. The book is a mastery of the true character of African leaders who, supported by our scholars, plunder our national resources. It is also written in an African setting depicting situations such as happening in Somalia. It should be a must buy for our politicians and scholars who, when close to power, become so disconnected from the masses to a level where oppression of the marginalized, the questionable wealth of the illiterates/criminals and of leaders become the norm rather than the exception.- Victor Bwire, THE PEOPLE (Kenya)
A collection of moving poems meant to make readers ponder on things. Inspired by the Author's experiences and views in life. Endorsements The poems are strong, and what I found particularly compelling in them is the way that they make the world of myth and folktales interact with the real world, so that each seems to breach the boundaries of the other: the effect is disturbing, thought-provoking. Dr. Noam Scheindlin, Poetry Editor of Warscapes Magazine and Professor of Comparative Literature in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA These poems are superbly constructed/crafted, beautifully embroidered, skillfully latticed. The shade they create offers shelter and solace to the inquisitive mind. The language is luxuriant, seductive, and mythopoeic. Ali Jimale Ahmed, Poet, Chair and Professor, Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at the Graduate School, CUNY.
In these poems, the imaginary peculiar and the experiences lived comingle in versatile rhythms and rhymes. Whether the anthological presentation of the imaginary or the demonstration of the experiences, or whether both were coincidental is a matter for readers to decide, drawing their own perceptions of yet another imaginary tale in which the narrative leads them rather than the narrator. This is because some of the narratives exhibited here are indeed unusual and would require a great deal of patience on the part of the reader to separate what was the original imaginary and what has been encountered as peculiar experience that had disturbed the narrator prior to the narration of the odd encounter. On the other hand, the complex world of experience has a variety of underpinning factors: Is the experience in question a lived one? Is it a seen or witnessed reality? Does it relate to the imagery and imagination of the narrator, writer, author, etc.? Are the observations through the imagination and the subjects of the imagery metaphorical? Or is the experience an authorial portrayal of a social reality shared or witnessed by others? These, in my opinion, offer a reflection of how a reader-decoder will interpret the poetic narratives expressed in the verses and at their disposal. The aim, as Ive done here, is to present to the reader what to reflect on, and the type of reflection, the quality of meaning to be made out of the narrative and narration, is to be left to the reader. This is what I have done in many of the poems in this collection.
This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Mohamed Siad Barre regime in Somalia from 1969 up to 1991, the book puts emphasis on African agencies—ostensibly shaped by external beneficiaries and patrons—over what went wrong with Africa after the much-awaited post-colonial period. It does so by critically engaging with the wider theoretical and conceptual frameworks in African Studies which more often than not tend to attribute the post-colonial African State raptures to colonialism. The main thesis of the book is that colonialism left Africa on its own space wherein African leaders could have made a difference. By putting discrete perspectives into historical context, the book circumnavigates through comparative and comprehensive holistic approach to the Siad Barre regime to reveal how colonialism did not produce less than what criminalisation of the State resulted in Somalia. This empirical analysis is crucial to understanding the contemporary conundrum facing the Somali world today. The argument is that the contemporary conflicts are not only attributable to—but also because of—the past plunders of the post-colonial leaders trained by the departed colonial authorities. Employing nuanced analytic concepts and categories, the aim of the book is to refine the past to recapture the present and envision the future. Framing new ways of analyzing military regimes in Africa begins with (re)assessment of how the Siad Barre regime was previously approached. Marshalling extensive and extraordinary amount of sources, the book unveils the intricacies and contradictions of the dictatorship and its impact on the Somali psyche. The book locates the evolution of the regime within the wider context of the Cold War political contestation between the East and the West. Unparalleled in-depth and analysis, this book is the first full-length scholarly study of the Siad Barre regime systematically explaining the politics and process of the dictatorial rule. The historicity of exploring Somali State trajectory entails employing a Braudelian longue durée approach. Thus, three interrelated sets of contexts/questions inform the study: how Siad Barre himself came into power, how he ruled and maintained his authoritarian reign over the Somalis and who had assisted him from inside and outside the Somali world.
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