Power Dialectics and Resistance in The Postcolony: A Reading of the Poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F Ndi
Power Dialectics and Resistance in The Postcolony: A Reading of the Poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F Ndi

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the complex nuances of power in the postcolony. By focusing on the poetry of two Anglophone Cameroon poets: Emmanuel Fru Doh, Wading the Tide (2009), Not Yet Damascus (2007), Bill F Ndi’s Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White (2010) and K’cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems (2008), the paper examines how political power manifests itself in ways that the post colonial scholar, Achille Mbembe has described as “banal.” That way, the paper situates itself within the context of postcolonial studies of state repression and resistance.

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