Publisher's Synopsis
AFORIKA TSOGA O BONE
, SETSWANA POETRY BOOK
- A synopsis of about 500 words describing the manuscript.
AFORIKA TSOGA O BONE is a powerful setswana with about 103 poems
, this poetry book talks about the currents moments of our society and the
past events that affected our ways of living today .It takes about how the
economy is affecting black people it is more of a rising the consciousness
of the dominant abd subdominant of the world, it tickle the system that
looks down on black people with inferior lenses. Like most poetry books it
also talks about love but it talks about all the pieces of love, the
heartbreaks, falling in love, the wedding parts, getting your loved one
pregnant and having to follow the traditional ways, love at first sight, you
can name it all. It covers family parts too, the role of a father, a role of a
mother, a role of a child, the are some poems that describe grandmother
dancing while grandfather enjoying the music.It stretches to our African
traditional ways as you can see the titled ''AFORIKA TSOGA O BONE''
meaning Africa wake up and see, this book will make a reader remember
who they are, where they come from and where they are going it will
paint them a true identity of Africa.Some poems inside this book talks
about our heroes like nelson mandela, Robert sebukwe, steve biko,
winnie madikhizela mandela and many more.We also see some poems as
motivational poems food to the soul, giving the reader hope to live again
and find pleasure in the most simple things of life.Not forgetting how some
diseases affected our lives, it has poems about Cancer . HIV/AIDS, Ibola,
COVID-19 and many more . This poetry book is like a bible it has it all, it
also have poems that talks about death and life in details. It also speaks
about technology since it is our way of life now, not forgetting that it also
talks about new age churches how they affected on how we view religion
how they have turn into business. Young people use drugs excessively so it
also cover on how drugs turn young people into slaves.It covers racism on
how racism affect workers and people in general, it talks about voting
times, protests for example a protest that happened marina and of 16 june
1976, it also talks about wealth and poverty, abortions, it talks to people
who went to the big cities and never came back home, it talks about music
, stars, different kinds of rains according to setswana tradition, corruption
, free education, rapes, kingdom, government workers and many
things.Like I said this poetry book is a bible it covers many things of the
pasts and of what is currently happening, you will relate and you will find
yourself too by reading these poems the best part is these poems are
age setswana writers like: L.D Rraditladi and J.M Ntsime.
- A small paragraph should be added explaining why the author thinks their
book will do well with Xarra Books.
This book will do well because it is written by a young person, it is written
in setswana it will be inspiration for many medias to see such a young
person who is very proud of his home language covering the most
significates parts of our times of which it is a rare thing to find when it
comes to writing. A young boy who grew up in a community of robbers,
drunkards and fighters painting such a beautiful gold it will be inspiration
to young people too, ''if one of us can do it we can do it too'' they will say,
this book will be a 'changing factor in setswana poetry' it won't get old
everything that it covers will always have a place on someone's heart.
