Bleeding Red

written by Bill F. Ndi

Cameroon in Black and White

Bill NDI’s Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a paragon of socio-political and cultural alertness in verse that will get every reader on their toes. Bill NDI’s world is fraught with topsy-turvydom. It is a world darkened by experience and a keen sense of the wrongs plaguing his beloved country. He points out, without preaching, where it all went wrong, how it can, or what it will take to, be redeemed. The acerbity of Bill NDI’s criticism runs from the very first poem of the collection ‘Anthem for Essingang’ through ‘The Promise’ to the very last one ‘Papa Ngando Yi Mimba for Camelun’. What a clime characterised by a “clan of mbokos, clan of bandits”! It is just natural that as they perpetrate “death and sadness” in his beloved fatherland, nothing but “disgrace”, “great shame”, and “repudiation” awaits them for evermore.

ISBN 9789956578269 | 68 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2010 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

Bill F. Ndi

Dr. Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, critic, translator & Fellow of The Booker T. Washington Leadership Institute is an American-Southern Cameroonian who was educated at GBHS Bamenda & Essos, the University of Yaoundé, Nigeria: ABSU, Paris: ISIT, the Sorbonne, Paris VIII & Cergy-Pontoise where he obtained his doctorate degrees in Languages: Translation and Languages, Literatures and Contemporary Civilizations. He has held teaching positions at the Paris School of Languages, the University of the Sunshine Coast at Sippy Downs, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is presently Professor of Modern Languages, Communication and Philosophy at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA.