Flight: In Search of Vision / Edition 1

by James B. B. Stewart

Overview

Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poet's father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of national and international significance, human and environmental rights, and speaks against injustice no matter who the oppressed or the oppressors are or where they come from. Ahmadu Fulani is a book of performance poetry, exploring oral performance traditions of Ilorin and Sokoto cultures, from Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani traditions of Nigeria and West Africa. From memorial contours, to social inquiry, to praise and mobilization poems, readers would need to perform the poems in order to realize their full meanings and literary aesthetics. A person can perform this poetry alone at home, or with others in the classroom or at the market square. Even the poems that do not have refrains can be read with performance flavor. The poet, as in his first volume, Almajiri, continues the invocation of street poetry tradition of the Nigerian street beggars, oral singers, and children and adults selling goods and services and chanting poetry on the Nigerian streets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592212347
Publisher:	Africa World Press
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	2.36(w) x 0.90(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Dedication	iii
	Acknowledgements	vii
	Preface	ix
	Memory
	Fulani o Filango	3
	Memory (1)	7
	Memory (2)	8
	Growing	12
	Ahmadu Fulani	13
	Loving New Moon	14
	Soccer Star	15
	Despair, Hopes, Wishes
	Stone's Throw	19
	Moon	20
	Raining Still	21
	Globalization
	Oil Price	27
	Alara	28
	Changing the World	29
	How many	30
	Bombou	31
	Global Africa	32
	Authoritarian, Curious Patriotism
	ADIEU, Abacha	37
	Patriotism	38
	I no Sabi o!	40
	Let's Speak Yoruba, Hausa
	Baba ni babaami	45
	Eniyan soro	46
	Irele rere	47
	Kongi! Kongi oo!	48
	Abiku	50
	Jawabi ta Sakkwatawa	52
	Ta'ala bami gberu mi dori (1)	53
	Ta'ala bami gberu mi dori (2)	56
	Yaya ba komi	59
	Iyaami	63
	Dankeli Burodi Buzu	64
	Omo mi Asabi	67
	Mai arziki ko akwara ya sai da ruwa	70
	Tributes, Salutations
	Anew, Day Comes Anew	75
	Iyemaja yee ye yeee!	77
	Ilorin Afonja, Geri Alimi	80
	Veronica	82
	Adiza	83