Poetry
Gritos de libertad y de esperanza
Not translated into English
Anacleto Oló Mibuy · 1987
Synopsis
A selection of the most striking poems of their author, gathered eight years after the end of Macías's dictatorship. They speak of the suffering of a people under a cruel regime and of pride in a Bantu heritage. In one of them, the poet imagines his verses being read one day beneath the trees of his village, by an old woman laden with memories: his poetry would there become an accusation, and the unjustly dead would rise to bear witness.
Context
The collection appeared at the time of what has been called the cultural renaissance of the eighties, of which Oló Mibuy was one of the architects. It had already appeared in the 1984 anthology of Guinean literature, and he was the ideologue of Afro-Ibero-Americanism, put forward at the Hispano-African congress in Bata in 1984. Other collections have followed; he has been a member of the Equatorial Guinean Academy of the Spanish Language since 2018.
Who it is for
Militant poetry in Spanish, for anyone who wants to hear the voice of the years that followed the dictatorship.
Prizes and reception
Its author has been compared with César Vallejo and Vicente Huidobro; his former pupils still call him “le profe”.
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