Mandela: Echoes of Apartheid and Impunity: Chronological Predictions and Fulfillments

By Sam Madugba

Mandela: Echoes of Apartheid And Impunity
is a compilation of 26 humanistic and passion-sustained poems on the Late Dr Nelson Mandela, the defunct Apartheid Regime in South Africa and global human rights struggles.
The poems written over a period of 31 years by a Nigerian poet and physician, capture in a compelling chronological sequence, the origin, course, hurts of Apartheid and local and global efforts orchestrated to overcome it. It further portrays the authors vision from the perspectives of mans inhumanity to man, impunity and unnecessary power display by man, white or black, and celebration of such rare virtues as courage, discipline, doggedness and the spirit of forgiveness found in the likes of Mandela, the anti-Apartheid hero, who volunteer to suffer persecutions and abuses in the course of liberating their people.
The book which prophesied the capitulation of Apartheid from the outset, proffers solutions to racism and corruption. It ends up on sanguinary note, pontificating that mans liberation is in his hands though divine intervention is necessary and that human rights activism and liberation struggles do not always disappoint since the likes of Mandela and Gani Fawehinmi of Nigeria, though chronically incarcerated, lived to old age, and even idolized by all before death.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496994448

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Section A Before I Matriculated

1. Apartheid: Chants Of Liberation

2. The Misty Future

3. Your Voice Echoes

4. Their Game Spoils

5. But For Noble Mosquito

6. With Them I Protest

7. Let’s Let Loose

8. I Dined With Africa

Section B As A Medical Student 1986-1992

9. My Friends

10. The Thorn Here Is Sharper

11. And Mandela Persists

12. Denials

13. I Look Beyond It

14. Try A Visit Today

Section C As A Medical Doctor

15. And Mandela Emerges

16. And Mandela Ascends

.17 A Passion To Intervene

18. Aids And Africa

19. The Unnormal Crusader

20. The Upright His Ironies

21. What If Jesus Were Aborted?

22. And Mandela Inspires

23. Our Living Men Are Dying

24. And Saint Mandela Arrives

25. The Legacy He Left

26. Mandela My Example

Mandela:Echoes Of Apartheid And Impunity

Epilogue

About The Author

‘‘There is a longing for freedom in every human heart, a longing that arises in response to events and situations that limit us, but not many of us can give vivid expression to this longing as Sam Madugba has done in his Mandela : Echoes Of Apartheid And Impunity, a contemporary treatise in verse which represents a personal odyssey on Nelson Mandela and Apartheid as well as a socio-political critique of unjust structures and practices of our society. His goal is to re-awaken in every one of his readers, if possible by force, the hunger for freedom, justice, responsibility, love and perfection.’’

-Rev Fr Gilbert Alaribe, Ph.D, Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary, Owerri, Nigeria.

In straddling the African socio-political landscape through three stages of maturation, Sam Madugba in his Mandela: Echoes Of Apartheid And Impunity has demonstrated an uncanny ability to maintain a passion-sustained focus so rare in distracting economies and tumbling social conditions that his country, Nigeria offers. This book compels attention. Now and again it reads like a lamentation which it is not. At other times, one gets the impression of a protest, but it is not one; yet sometimes, the poems read like a realistic offering, and they are not. The immediacy of the subject, the range of the linguistic vehicle, and the varied approach to the presentation of the theme invite a closer reading of the poems. Sam Madugba is indeed a poet of exceptional talent.

-Professor Toni Duruaku, Dept of English, Alvan Ikoku Fed.College of Education,