Signatures upon Cantata

About the Book

This anthology of political poems lends a voice of patriotism to political protests as a free born of Africa. These poems have been written in protests to the evils of corruption in the continent of Africa and most other third-world countries. In the process, the author has lent his voice with the protests for good governance in Africa. In the same vein, he has many laments on the lack of patriotism in Africa and how much that has set the continent back, compared to the Asian tigers that started in the same footing with Africa. It is true that Africa was the last frontiers of conquests by the colonial explorers and pirates, but there is nothing hard about learning from others who have been there to not make the same mistakes that characterized most nation builders. It is true that one of the banes of African politics is her numerous ethnic groups and the need to satisfy everyone, but we cannot fail to acknowledge that the world is changing pretty fast and that we need to adapt to those changes, so as not to be left in the dark.

About the Author

Smithson Buchi Ahiabuike, MD, a poet and writer, was born in Moroa-River, Nassarawa State of Nigeria in 1965. He is from Eluama-Isuikwuato of Abia State. He is the youngest child of Chief Udensi Jonah Ahiabuike and late Adada Jane Udensi Ahiabuike. His earliest education was in Eluama Community School. He started writing poetry at twelve. He is a pioneer student of Federal Government College Wukari in Taraba State. He went to Medical School at University of Nigeria College of Medicine, Enugu. He graduated with the 1990 Class. He did his National Youth Service Corps at remote rural communities of Rimi and Musawa of Katsina State. At the end of his service year in 1992/1993, he won the Governor’s Honors Award as the best corp member of his service year, presented by Gov. Saidu Barde. He had a postgraduate medical education in the United States at Meharry Medical College in Nashville Tennessee. The Signatures upon Cantata was written partly in Nigeria and in the United States. He has published dozens of poems in Nigerian and International journals. He has written more than half a dozen other anthologies of poems crisscrossing all works of life. Smithson Buchi Ahiabuike is an internist practicing Hospitalist Medicine in the United States. He is married to Chinyere Hope Ezirim, and they are blessed with four children. He lives with his family in Rainbow City Alabama.