The poets whose contributions make up this collection are a generation whose vision of life has been wrought under the grip of a tyrannical and fear instilling protodemocratic regime in the vestments of “advanced democrats”. Most of the poets were born in the last hours of the Ahidjo regime and the early days of the Biya’s. They look back in anger upon the events of close to Thirty Years of horror and hopelessness, and diagnose the grossly tribalised, anti-human and vulgar situation in their society. They have witnessed suffering and are still suffering in the hands of highly propagandist politicians and are therefore hostile towards the regime and sceptical about whatever it offers as solutions.
