Barbed Forest draws from the socio-political character of society--specific societies sometimes. It navigates its way from the political to the familial and ultimately personal concerns of humankind before projecting the positive "humanist vision" of which the poet cum freedom songster...

Bill NDI's Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a paragon of socio-political and cultural alertness in...