Underneath the umbrella of hope: Syncretism as solution in the dialogic poetry of Mukoma wa Ngugi

Authors

Stephen Derwent Partington

Abstract

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung (Grace Nichols, ‘Epilogue’)

To say I am against American terrorism or state terror is not to say that I am with the suicide bombers — it simply means I am opposed to all forms of terrorism. And it is this space, a space to be sane, to voice and organize against all forms of oppression, that we have to fight for (Mukoma wa Ngugi, ‘Africa and the War on Terror’)

Recommended Citation

Partington, Stephen Derwent, Underneath the umbrella of hope: Syncretism as solution in the dialogic poetry of Mukoma wa Ngugi, Kunapipi, 30(2), 2008.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol30/iss2/12