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Never follow the crowd; walk / The narrow, calm pathway of your conscience.

 

 
 

Books by Rose Ure Mezu

 

Women in Chains: Abandonment in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West African Writers (1994) / Songs of the Hearth (1993) /

Homage to My People (2004) / A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004)

 Black Nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. & Nkrumah (1999) Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006)

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Songs of the Hearth

By Rose Ure Mezu  

Contents

 

Introduction by Rose Ure Mezu

9

Akwuosa: My Dream Home

17

Eulogy to Tunes: Heavenly Melody

19

Remembering the Widow

20

Obinna

21

March 30, 1974

22

Words of Love: a Panegyric to My Beloved at Fifty

23

Chinyere

26

To My Daughters

27

Kelechi

27

Songs of the Times: Courage to Live

28

Love Me with the Deepest Love

30

Spring Is Here Again

31

Let Go the Complicated Self

32

Dare the Highest Heights

32

Watching You Grow

33

Children of the World, Arise

36

Spare a Thought for the Innocents

38

Rain

41

The Leader

43

Song of Victory

44

An Easter Greeting: To a Fairy God-Mother

46

Clinton in Victory: Song for a Warrior

48

Patience

51

My True Love

53

Voices: At a Catholic Black Church

54

Knowing

55

The Gossamer Palace

57

Success

59

Increase of Saving Faith

60

A Birthday Prayer

61

An Earnest Prayer for a Family

62

Hymn of Praise

63

To the Blessed Mother

64

Our Lady Queen of Peace

65

I Walk in Pride

66

The Harmattan

68

The Will to Change

70

Chiege, Woman of Spendor

72

Ode to a Jubilee Year

74

Index

76

Glossary

77

 

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updated 10 June 2008

 

 

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