Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Happy Birthday -- Letter to our deaf father of the nation: "Mr. Dict…." -- A Song For African Heroes -- Hearing the Voiceless -- Seeing From The Other Side -- The Wealth Of Poverty -- Beyond Sentient Patience -- Thirst: Would Our Heads Understand -- The Racist Black (A Prose for the Headless African) -- Presence -- Freedom Givers (In Old Dahomey) -- Sweet Exile -- Glen -- Ridding -- Hostages -- Another Messiah Is Born -- Remains: New Arms Stardom -- Forest Guile -- In my herd -- Transparency -- A Century Ago -- May Be In A Dream -- The Seine By Night -- Platitudesmaybe -- Stained Garb -- The Inner Being -- To The Jap -- As Sun Sets East -- A Fisherman Dreams -- Come's The Time -- Wreck -- Instinct -- We Preys -- Fools Themselves -- Our Lot -- Hurdles -- Rain Dance (Daunting) -- Pari(S)Ah -- Paris: Is It? -- Our Kind Stepmother -- Cartridges -- All In A Second -- My Prayer -- Sunset -- U - Suffrage -- Vain Glory -- Complex "S" -- The Transfer -- The Scum -- The Greyhound -- The Gospel -- American Dream Village -- Tryst -- Our Bride -- My Happy Plight -- K'CRACY -- The Shoots -- The Versatiles -- Family Feud -- Stale-Word (Hope) -- Machination -- The Plebs: Their Chair -- We See, Only Mourn. Cities' Debacle -- Dragonlike Friday (April Sixth) -- Pope Of Camsima -- In Our Manger: Are We Strangers? -- The Private -- Our House -- Dredging Mokolo Market -- Assassinating Democracy (Insurgence) -- Progress -- The Beggar -- Caught -- Madam Landlord -- Viper -- Legless -- Soccer Queen -- Spaying South -- Indigentia -- IUD -- The Ivorian -- The Best Priest -- Gorji Guano -- The Real Guano -- The Deal: Tough Times -- From Then To Date -- Zoorhs -- Coins and Sheets -- Mean Idiot -- Chiefdom -- Shark's Shack -- Heir -- Grassfield -- Their Yearnings -- Gunner Gone -- The Head.

The Village Mountain -- He -- The World a Classroom -- as it was (epilogue) -- Extricated, Yet On The Fence -- Pastor President -- The Downtrodden -- Equality -- Back cover.