Bøger af Nol Alembong

The Passing Wind presents the message of a Cameroonian to his fellow Africans and mankind in general. In the wide-ranging impressive collection, Nol Alembong dilates on the hierarchy of the physical and spiritual components of man, underlining in the process that purity and integrity are foremost among the values that man ought to uphold. Like some of his predecessors, the author occasionally assumes the role of a critic, alerting Africans about the danger which misuse of power and injustice pose to their development. Professor Stella M.A. Johnson University of Lagos Lagos, Nigeria &&&&& This revised edition of The Passing Wind is written in accessible style and lends itself to a multiplicity of interesting readings. In it the poet's diligence as a craftsman is foregrounded. Eunice NGONGKUM (PhD) University of Yaounde 1 Yaounde, Cameroon

Green Call is a collection of forty poems. Unlike most poetry written today, the poems, in the main, reflect what has come to be known in current literary discourses as 'green writing.' Through the colour green, the poet captures the splendours of natural environment and militates for global environmental protection, enrichment and sustenance. To the poet green is a symbol of vigour, vitality, exuberance, freshness, life, health, rectitude, fertility and the natural world. This is what is laid bare when the poet depicts landscapes, exhorts people to action, paints characters and reflects on life itself. The poems encapsulate the fauna and flora that make the African continent stand out as an envious environmental matrix. Quotes: ""Nol Alembong has a strong predilection for African plants, insects and especially animals whose members he parades with grace and felicity."" - Professor Stella M.A. Johnson, University of Lagos, Nigeria ""I salute your poetic artistry, great eco-patriot! Many more critics and researchers, including myself, will continue to feed on this wonderful poetic and intellectual food you are offering us."" - Kenneth T. Nsah (Nsah Mala), Writer and Teacher, in an email to Nol Alembong posted on CAMLIT@yahoogroups.com, February 24, 2015

The overall aim of this study has been to show that incantations from the Western Grassland region of Cameroon derive their essence from the people¿s religious beliefs and practices and that they reveal a perception of the universe as an ordered system, a whole. This whole comprises many structures, from inorganic matter to man, the inanimate, animate, celestial, and spirit worlds ¿ all these reduced to the physical and metaphysical realms of existence.From a purely metaphysical point of view, the structures that constitute the universe form a hierarchy of perfections or degrees of being. The most elementary structure of reality is that of inorganic matter ¿ the lowest level of perfection in the visible universe. Above the level of inorganic matter are the various levels or degrees of life. Life, on whatever level it can be considered, manifests itself as a real and active synthesis, that is, the reduction of diversity to unity. Vegetative life utilises inorganic matter and reduces the diversity of this matter to the unity of an organism. The next level of life ¿ sensory or animal life ¿ utilises in its turn vegetative life. And, finally, the highest level of life ¿ the spiritual or intellectual and volitional life of man ¿ presupposes and utilises a very highly developed form of sensory life. Here, the reduction of diversity to unity reaches its maximum, for in human life the sense-knowledge and sense-affections of purely animal life are transcendently unified in the ideas and value of the spiritual self, linking man to the spirit world.