About the Author:
In addition to being a poet and a writer, Smithson Buchi Ahiabuike, MD went to Medical School at University of Nigeria College of Medicine, Enugu, completed his postgraduate medical education in the United States, and is an internist practicing Hospitalist Medicine in the US. He is married to Chinyere Hope Ezirim and they are blessed with four children. They live in Rainbow City, Alabama.
About the Book:
Heroism of Hope for Africa: Patriotic Poems on the Dawn of a New Era
6x9, 220 Pages,
Case Laminate, $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-937763-11-4
Perfect Bound, $14.94
ISBN: 978-1-937763-12-1
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This is a very compelling collection that is guaranteed to capture and sustain the attention of all consumers and connoisseurs of poetry, especially those with emotional investments in Africa.
Someone once said that poets do not possess words but are possessed by words. Heroism of Hope for Africa is a product of fecund inspiration, the work of a poet dedicated to his art and its socio-political possibilities. Ahiabuike’s poetry is fresh, natural, and mellifluous, grounded in a unique craft that relies on the power of intuition and shuns the blind spots of visible verities. The imagery of these poems is at once vivid and deeply layered, truthfully grim and hopeful. And the social commitment of Ahiabuike’s verse is exemplary; it celebrates the tastes, smells, peoples, flavors, and futures of the land of his birth without oozing the smug, hagiographical nationalism of similar literary undertakings.
In Nigeria’s immense promise, landscapes, peoples, cultures, aspirations, values, and in the diversity of its traditions, Ahiabuike
has constructed a poetic pastiche of beauty and patriotic idealism. Powered by this rich repertoire of inspirational sources, these verses come alive as one reads them, dissolving the familiar, banal optics of lost causes and truncated dreams. In this carefully arranged collection we see a new Nigeria emerge with clarity and literary vigor. Ahiabuike’s triumph is in poetically arousing and guiding our deadened senses to Africa’s possibilities and to its counter-intuitive opportunities.
Moses Ebe Ochonu, PhD
Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, USA
6x9, 220 Pages,
Case Laminate, $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-937763-11-4
Perfect Bound, $14.94
ISBN: 978-1-937763-12-1
BUY NOW
This is a very compelling collection that is guaranteed to capture and sustain the attention of all consumers and connoisseurs of poetry, especially those with emotional investments in Africa.
Someone once said that poets do not possess words but are possessed by words. Heroism of Hope for Africa is a product of fecund inspiration, the work of a poet dedicated to his art and its socio-political possibilities. Ahiabuike’s poetry is fresh, natural, and mellifluous, grounded in a unique craft that relies on the power of intuition and shuns the blind spots of visible verities. The imagery of these poems is at once vivid and deeply layered, truthfully grim and hopeful. And the social commitment of Ahiabuike’s verse is exemplary; it celebrates the tastes, smells, peoples, flavors, and futures of the land of his birth without oozing the smug, hagiographical nationalism of similar literary undertakings.
In Nigeria’s immense promise, landscapes, peoples, cultures, aspirations, values, and in the diversity of its traditions, Ahiabuike
has constructed a poetic pastiche of beauty and patriotic idealism. Powered by this rich repertoire of inspirational sources, these verses come alive as one reads them, dissolving the familiar, banal optics of lost causes and truncated dreams. In this carefully arranged collection we see a new Nigeria emerge with clarity and literary vigor. Ahiabuike’s triumph is in poetically arousing and guiding our deadened senses to Africa’s possibilities and to its counter-intuitive opportunities.
Moses Ebe Ochonu, PhD
Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, USA