Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Soul
On Sale (SOS) sounds like a rap song though it isn’t. It isn’t purely a
poem but a long- provocative and vigorous song focusing on the history
of injustices and those suffering from injustice urging them to take
action. It explores colonialism, corruption and neocolonialism Africa
faces. It chides victims to self-reinvent so as to change the status quo
manned by begging and venal potentates. It seeks to provoke readers to
feel empowered and responsible. Thus, stand and change the world’s
status quo sui generis. It employs an enthralling-flow style in free
verse to catch the attention of the reader.
£23.00
About the author
Mhango is the author of Saa ya Ukombozi, Nyuma ya Pazia, Souls on Sale, Born with Voice, Africa Reunite or Perish, Psalm of the Oppressed, Perpetual Search, Africa’s Best and Worst President: How Neocolonialism and Imperialism Maintained Venal Rules in Africa and ‘Is It Global War on Terrorism’ or Global War over Terra Africana?: The Ruse Imperial Powers Use to Occupy Africa Militarily for Economic Gains, How Africa Developed Europe: Deconstructing the His-story of Africa, Excavating Untold Truth and What Ought to Be Done and Known, Africa’s Dependency Syndrome: Can Africa Still Turn Things around for the Better?, Our Heritage, Family Friend of Animal and Matembezi Mbugani (Children’s book co-authored with his wife Nesaa).
Review
“Nkwazi Mhango’s Souls on Sale offers a mesmerizing song about the absurd trials and tribulations of Africa’s freedom. It is some feat: epic in length, epic in significance. While versed in lyricism, what is achieved here, in the wake of exploding xenophobia in South Africa, is something poignant and timely.”
Joanna Woods, author of From Home and Exile: A Negotiation of Ideas about Home in Malawian Poetry
“This is a piece of beauty. I quite enjoyed reading it with its very peculiar and innovative style. By questioning, demanding, discussing, invoking, supplicating, arguing for, and informing his different stakeholders, the poet brings to issue – with brilliant elegance – different aspects of human political and social life.”
Lilian Lem Atanga, Associate Professor Gender and Discourse Studies, University of Bamenda, Cameroon
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