Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn
2018·96 pages
A powerful poetry collection by Tanella Boni exploring ethnic violence and hope in Ivory Coast.
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A powerful poetry collection by Tanella Boni exploring ethnic violence and hope in Ivory Coast.
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Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa's Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium. Boni maps these events onto a mythic topography where people live among their ancestors and are subject to the whims of the powerful, who are at once magical and all too petty. The elements--...
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Sexual content
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No sexual content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Frequent references to ethnic violence and civil war; central to themes.
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Substance use
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Magic & witchcraft
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Minor mythic elements with magical undertones; not central.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Strong focus on ethnic conflict and state violence in Ivory Coast.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Central themes of systemic suffering due to war and ethnic violence.
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