Half a Refugee in Ssanda and Australia: 100 PoemsIn Half a Refugee in Ssanda and Australia: 100 Poems, a man is imagined as comprising two parts. One part is physical, which on the mans migration moves to Australia from Ssanda, a small African village. The other part relating to his psychological, emotional and cultural life remains in the mans vilage of birth. The book is about the sustaining, nourishing power of Uganda culture. |
Contents
The village virgins | |
Roll call | |
Jajja died this month | |
A village path | |
Laughter | |
The girl in a yellow dress | |
Smiles | |
First names | |
Lack of anonymity | |
Beating about the bush | |
Rudderless | |
Other villages | |
Voice | |
The | |
Give me space mate | |
Longing for loud | |
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