A Call - Couverture souple

Thompson, Celia Eva Beatrice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9988869878 ISBN 13 : 9789988869878

Editeur : Sierra Leonean Writers Series, 2017

Synopsis

After over a decade of peacekeeping mission experiences and observing different cultures and family systems, putting together this collection, was a way to unload my conscience and make, ‘A Call’. What legacy is ‘today’ building for ‘tomorrow’? is the underlining question repeatedly posed in the variety of themes and imageries, whether it is deceit, corruption, impunity, dishonour, migration on the dark side or love, hope and rebirth on the sunny side. I do not have the answers to the questions but as I grope around this space called ‘earth’ and interact with ‘the others’ that I share it with, I observe how, ‘us’ humans, recklessly treat others, our environments and state institutions and then greedily ‘collect’ everything for ‘I’. A second issue that fights for my attention with more unanswered questions is that of the ‘in betweens’ in the life of the ‘migrant’. On one side of the coin, he/she leaves his family in an ‘underdeveloped’ and ‘unjust’ society to get the greener apple on the ‘other side’. There, he will struggle to be integrated into the society- adopting new cultures and ideologies. On the other side of the coin, he has his indigenous obligations- family and community- to keep up with. The nexus between the issues of his two different ‘worlds’ becomes shaky. A shakiness, that in most cases would eventually leave him in a confused state of ‘return’ or ‘no return’; a gap which he must bridge to prevent a ‘cut-off’ between his two ‘worlds’, if he ever makes it to the ‘otherside’.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Celia Eva Beatrice Thompson, previously Koh, was born in 1976 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She attended the Saint Joseph’s and Saint Edward’s Secondary Schools in Freetown. She holds a BA Honours in Linguistics from FBC/USL. Celia started her professional life with Spence Production, now Premier Media Ltd, and then went to work for CauseCanada. She joined the UN family in 2003. She has worked for the UN Radio in South Sudan, Foundation Hirondelle, the West Africa Regional Radio in Senegal and is presently working and living in Iraq. Celia is a proud Rotarian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sierra Leonean Writers Series
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9988869878
• ISBN 13: 9789988869878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg