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TITLE<\/strong>: Contours of Life<\/em>
\nAUTHOR<\/strong>: Binta Salma Mohammed
\nPUBLISHER<\/strong>: Informart, Kaduna
\nYEAR<\/strong>: 1999
\nPAGES<\/strong>: 50
\nBLURB<\/strong>: Contours of Life captures the significant happenings of our time and the vicissitudes of life in a tune that is simple, accessible and in visual images with stress on shapes that are relevant and artistically pleasing. It praises virtue, denounces vice and mirrors the triumphs and travails of the downtrodden, thus engendering in the reader an ever-deepening understanding of life, death and destiny.
\nInspired by the impact of life and persons around the author, these poems do not only revolve around her or her life alone. They are poems plucked from the lips of her land in its manifold laughters and sorrows, poems which have been designed to a universal appeal.
\nTHE AUTHOR<\/strong>: Binta Salma Mohammed, a lecturer in the Department of English and European Languages, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, was born in Gwarzo, Kano State. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the Bayero University.
\nHer poems, short stories and articles have appeared in school and news publications, as well as in journals and anthologies. Contours of Life<\/em> is her first book published.<\/p>\n

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