Recently unleashd onto the world's literary scene, banker-turned-poet Anaele Charles Ihuoma is one poet who is giving a new, poetic, meaning to the term 'contemporary', tackling new global political challenges with a refreshing poetic vigour. In his second collection of poems Song of the Threshing Floor,(Whitecock Press, 2006), Ihuoma aims the sharp edge of his plume at the ethnic cleansers of DARFUR, fast becoming the world's sore thumb. 'Buffet of Lame parts'  is his description of what is going on in that region now infamous for cannibalizing even its own peace keepers, while Africa which watches helplessly is labelled 'gleeful voyeurs' at her 'own cuckoldry' . Not done yet, Ihuoma's latest poetry entry, Song of the Swallow (2007) throws his hat deep into the Niger Delta ring. He dedicates an entire section of the envigorating collection to that West African trouble spot. Ihuoma is fast establishing himself as a political poet of repute; in his debut collection, Tongues of Triumph,(2003) he had poems dedicated to Yitzak Rabin the murdered Israeli Prime Minister, as well as to Nelson Mandela, but the world scarcely took notice then, but when heavy decibels started sounding, louder than the booming guns of Darfur, the world, inevitably, had to awaken to a new voice in her midst. KEEP A DATE WITH THIS PAGE FOR MORE...