TITLE: Tongues of Flame
AUTHOR: Halima Sekula
PUBLISHERS: Informart, Kaduna
YEAR: 2005
PAGES: 63
THE BLURB: In this first collection, Halima Sekula has declared a confident entry to the broad terrace of new Nigerian poetry. The poets sensitivity to the human condition is only equalled by her deep concern for the familiar tribulations of the African woman. She explored such issues as surrogate marriage, polygamy, child labour, poverty, hypocrisy, betrayal, divorce, and wife inheritance with such assurance of metaphors and images; by giving voice to these precarious narratives of lives in society, the poet joins a handful of new writers who have dared to speak, on behalf of others.
Tongues of Flame reads in part like Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino without its fatal lamentation. Mature, frontal and clear-headed, Sekula’s brilliant imagination shines through.
THE AUTHOR: Halima Sekula currently lecturers at the Department of English, Nasarawa State University, Keffi. Her poems and short stories have been published in various national and international journals, anthologies and newspapers like Nigerian Newsday, Leadership, Poetry from A.B.U., and Penwomanship.
