Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- The Coming of the Sages -- Spear and Shield -- the mungo -- The Princely Kite -- The Labours of a Boy -- Little Chick -- Song of a Convict -- Wailing in the Jungle -- The Ballot-Box -- The Slaughter House -- Africa, My Africa -- Lysona -- A Coffin for Dr. Mbella Pe -- Unrequited -- On the Toilet -- M'mendi -- Cameroon -- The Lament of a Youth -- Song of a Lunatic -- On Delirium -- Infatuation -- Dalila's Napkins -- The Magus I -- The Magus II -- Church Bells Summon -- Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-one -- To a Gecko on My Window Pane -- On the Bamenda Massacre -- Ghost Towns -- Song To My Country People -- A Tear for Siga Asanga -- Mfoundi Faery -- My Birthday Party -- Requiem for Lady of State -- Essingan Dancers -- Human Indignity -- Ken Saro-Wiwa -- When I shall not Live -- To the Son of Mvoondoo -- To the Proprietors of the Republic -- In Memory of Dr Philip Agendia -- Lac Municipal -- My Clansman's Benevolence -- The Bigman's Son -- On the Departure of Haifa -- Njisoo -- Conscience and the Man -- A Phantom in Heaven -- City Woman -- To a Shy Lad -- Buea Mountain -- The Beauty of Life -- A Gap in Her Teeth -- Plastic Love -- Letters to Marion -- The Beginning -- Back Cover.