Poetry
Thoughts from Exile
Mvula ya Nangolo · 1991
Synopsis
A collection of poems of 37 pages, which follows From Exile, published in 1976. Its poems are not known in detail; elsewhere his verse of exile speaks of longing for the native land, of lost friends and of belonging to the clan, the tribe and the nation.
Context
The collection appeared in 1991 in Windhoek from Longman Namibia. It takes its place between From Exile, of 1976, and Watering the Beloved Desert, a collection of new and selected poems of 2008. The author's poems appear in several anthologies, among them The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry and When My Brothers Come Home, and the Revue Noire published an extract from his first collection in 1992.
Who it is for
For reading the poetry of Namibian exile, written by an independence activist who became the national poet.
Prizes and reception
The Revue Noire presents him as Namibia's national poet; no review of the collection has been found.