A Name That Is Mine

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A Name That Is Mine is written by Tennu Mbuh and published by African Books Collective. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9956550949 (ISBN 10) and 9789956550944 (ISBN 13).

In this poetry collection, Mbuh Mbuh Tennu offers a virulent indictment of the multifarious faces of pain which have lent a dystopian colouring to our world. These poems are all at once, songs of lament, regret, defiance and protest. The idea of naming which is a central motif underscores the dangers of being foreign named; which implies being claimed and owned and more importantly the imperative of self-naming to claim a name and to own that name; to self-define and to defy attempts to contravene this. This is a collection for our time; our timelessness. It is an urgent, reflective and incisive call to stay awake and be actors of our history.