This collection of poems and short verses was gathered from the posthumously discovered writings of Ganza V. Rwango. The poems reflect Rwango’s life and death and his memories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly eastern Congo where he was born and raised. His poems reveal the joys and the problems of daily life and community living in Congo, and they engage issues such as peace and war, equity and inequity, and understanding and discrimination. The love between members of a family and love between men and women are also explored here. Rwango’s poems and short verses also touch upon the sorrows and sadness of life as experienced through terminal diseases such as AIDS.

Rwango’s writings are didactic, yet powerfully philosophical. They take the reader on a fascinating voyage through the mind of the writer and his life in the D. R. Congo, the USA, Africa, and the rest of the world.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Seba wa Lulenga currently teaches English to speakers of other languages at Madison Area Literary Council in Wisconsin, USA. He published a course book titled African Literature Aesthetics: A Course Intended for Senior Students of African Literature. He has also published numerous articles on parallelisms and repetitions in the novels of Ayi Kwei Armah, T .M. Mofolo, Sembene Ousmane, and Camara Laye.

Drocella Mwisha Rwanika is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literatures at Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa. She is currently writing a book on women’s quest for identity.

CATEGORY

Poetry/AFRICA