The contents of our empty graves, a poetry collection against social vices written by Cookey Iwuoha a journalist, creative entrepreneur and civil society leader tends to elaborately review the negative side of most of the social crimes in our today’s humanity and reflected on some of the yester-years atrocities which continuously shape the ills in the world that the collection contends with.
The collection of poetry is like a modern day work on a papyrus, as it delves into the present- past to collect essential issues and dissect them on today’s society, infusing their influence in our psyche and then battle the vice to standstill on his readers mind, the poet takes his argument successfully against the established order of some social sins that are legalized by circumstances in some of today’s human society, social ills like Child labour, Racism, Abortion, War ,Capital Punishment ,Domestic violence ,and of course perils and joys of Love.
Dedicating the book to over 17 youths who had fallen before their prime under different circumstances tries to give the reader a waking punch to the menace that we contend with in today’s world, from his work that successfully reprimand terrorism in the African society hinged on the conflict between Islam and Christianity, to The Call a message of restoration of pride to new generation of Africans whose forbear fell victim to the Trans Atlantic slave trade that dehumanized black Africans for more than three hundred years in cruel servitude.
Contents Of Our Empty Graves
In Self Apostles the collection stepped in on the rampant abuse of naive worshipers by authorities in the religion they adhere to.
The writers use of allegory, Simile, imagery and other figures of speech offers a refreshing entrance to his readers who are bound to stay glued to the collection till its end and to possibly remain loyal converts to this new writer whose soulful lamentations and exhilarating love songs opens a new door to an amazing world populated with pure emotions that reminds us all what being human truly means, good and evil.
Below are a glimpse of what to expect in this collection ,the entire work is filled with soul searching questions that pleads for answers both from human and spirits.
From the verses you will agree with me that In the Contents of our empty Graves , Cookey Iwuoha ,a self confessed ’de-colonized’ contemporary African poet tries to persuade us to see through the warped fabric of human emotions, the collection in its entirety presents the opinion that there are many in all of us, and man despite depths of his innocence at birth, is still capable of any evil depending on the situations that shaped him. The sad love poems like My beautiful way to die, A woman pledge, Incurable Maladies of my mind, exposes the intricacies borne by self in the time of love and how much our self acceptance so much depends on others opinion of us, especially people we value, this poetry collection is an entire reflection of predominant issues in modern African society.
A must read for any soul trying to effectively contemplate positive change in the human community.
