Forest Echoes

Forest Echoes is a literary quilt revealing a mature poet bestriding generations as he patches together a people's culture their philosophy history along with their attendant woes into a subtle sometimes disillusioning even yet purposeful and poignant whole. Nol Alembong is not afraid to be himself in this work: a scholar teacher parent traditionalist and above all an Anglophone-Cameroonian. Whatever the case these are magisterial and equally influential individual traits that have merged into a united whole in forging this poet's identity and concerns as evident from the thematic panorama of the poems. In Forest Echoes the title poem for example one encounters a poet who though steeped in his people's struggles has been able to stand back watch and evaluate the effects of the interactions of time events and society. It is this ability of his as an involved yet detached observer along with the trend of events that have scarred his people's lives which have yielded the powerful emotions that he has assembled in this thematically lush historically nostalgic and overwhelmingly evocative collection. - Dr. Emmanuel Fru Doh