Sam Mbure's poems featured in this collection include: "Rain," "Retire," and the "Might Eagle" which appears below.
'The storm brought
almost everything down
big trees
big twigs
big leaves
The storm raised up
almost everything
dust
litter
napkins.
The storm caught almost everything
except the might eagle who
soared when he chose
hovered when he wished
dropped when he felt like
gliding freely among the clouds
the eagle longed for more stormy days."

Published by Jacaranda Designs, Nairobi

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On April 7-9, 1994 over 200 scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada and the United states gathered at the Penn State Berks Campus in Reading, Pennslyvania, to celebrate the work of Ngugi wa Thiongo. The presentation of 150 papers, poetry readings by Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Kamau Braithwaite and a variety of distinguished poets in English and African languages, and a reading by Ngugi himself, made this the largest conference ever held to discuss an African writer. In addition to focusing on Ngugi, the conference included the discussion of other relevant African, Caribbean, Commonwealth, postcolonial and African American writers, issues of writing in European and/or African and other indeginous languages, political, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, pedagogical, economic and religous context and questions of gender, orature, translations, film,poetics and aesthetics.
Ngugi wa Thiongo Texts and Contexts is edited by Professor Charles Cantalupo and published by Africa World Press, Inc. New Jersey, USA.

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