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No Turning Back

No Turning Back

Poems of Freedom 1990-1993

Dibussi Tande

No Turning Back relives the tumultuous beginnings of Africa's democratization experiment in the early 1990s. The main theme of the collection is an investment in hope and in the resilience of Africans. The poems are loud and clear in their castigation of dictatorship and its miseries. They celebrate the mass resolve and thirst for democracy by Africans for whom there is 'No turning back!'

ISBN 9789956558056 | 72 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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'A lucid and truly memorable collection of poems. Dibussi forces us to turn back and look at the pivotal volcanic moments in Cameroon's history between 1990- 1993... As a student activist and budding journalist during this historic period, Dibussi captures cadences of this struggle eloquently.' 

Joyce Ashuntantang, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Connecticut, Greater Hartford, USA

'This collection is an important document chronicling, through verse, the events of an era in a given space with unmitigated passion.' 

Kangsen Wakai, poet, Houston, Texas, USA

'...a subtle yet unapologetic critique of Cameroon's chequered history of predatory governance. The poems provide succor to a people besieged first by the unrealised dreams of a political (mis)marriage and then a false promissory note on which their democratic development is written.'

George Ngwane, Chair, National Book Development Council, Cameroon

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About the Author

Dibussi Tande

Dibussi Tande was born in 1968 in Buea, Cameroon. He obtained a “Licence” in Public law (1989) and a “Maitrise” in Political Science (1990) from the University of Yaounde. He also holds Masters degrees in Political Science and Instructional Technology from Northeastern Illinois University and Northern Illinois University respectively. Before moving to the United States in 1993, he wrote for a host of leading Cameroonian newspapers. He was also an associate editor for Cameroon Today and Cameroon Life Magazine. He currently produces the leading Cameroonian blog, Scribbles from the Den, and writes for a variety of print and online journals. His poems have been published in several anthologies.

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