The Center- Margin Dialectics in The Poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F. Ndi
The Center- Margin Dialectics in The Poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F. Ndi

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the concept of the center-margin in relation to the selected poetry of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bill F Ndi. A concept rooted in postcolonial studies focusing on the relationship between colonial power in relation to the colonized, the paper transposes this concept, in post independent Cameroonian society, to see how the struggle to give voice to those on the margin of society is given currency in the poetry of Doh and Ndi. The paper submits that after independence, the center has essentially shifted from the colonial authorities to the new elite. They in turn, have consolidated the socio-economic gains, creating a perpetual rift between the ruler and the ruled.

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