Inklings of my Ink

Inklings from my ink resonates with the allure of grandeur. Divided into five parts, nature, love, flowers from my youth, life and death inklings and diverse inklings, the poet travels through different mind frames exploring the emotions embedded into the human psyche both as agent and victim which weave together into this carefully plotted poetic maze.

Joffi Ewusi is a promising manipulator of language and rolls out her personifications with dexterous simplicity. Some of the poems reveal a budding mistress of art. Ewusi is a promising Cameroonian poet from the perspective of her thematic concern and her verbiage. Her grand theme – the beauty and pain and the paradox of life, sets aside from the ordinary poetic rantings and places her amongst the budding philosopher poets of her generation. For her, it is not simply poetry as usual but a philosophic rendition in poetic terms of our innermost fears and our most cherished joy. How to negotiate these two ecstatic states remain the cornerstone of her poetic thought and perhaps the reason why we are compelled to read her.

Athanasius Ayuk (PhD), Associate professor HTTC (ENS) Yaounde -  University of Yaounde I

 

Joffi Ewusi’s Inklings from My Ink is a collection of verses with an appealing rhetoric force and a compelling tone that make the poems say what they have to say lucidly. Ranging from a celebration of nature; reminding us about the inevitable partnership we share with nature as the means to regain harmony and happiness in the world to probing into complex notions of love, marriage, hate, disappointment and forgiveness, life and death, the poems are a perfect blend of inspiration and artistry.

Kelvin Ngong Toh (PhD), University of Bamenda.

Joffi Ewusi hails from Great Soppo, a picturesque village at the foot of the Fako Mountain in Buea; South West Region; Cameroon. She studied English, Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of Buea and later moved to the University of Yaoundé 1 and read Commonwealth Studies for her first Master’s degree.  After working with PIAASI as Communications Officer, her insatiable quest for knowledge ushered her to pursue another Master’s degree in Commonwealth and American Literary Studies. Presently, she is a scholar in the Doctorate School of Languages and Literatures in the University of Yaoundé 1 where she is reading Commonwealth and American Literary Studies. She is a staff of the Bilingual Training program in the University of Yaoundé 1 where she teaches English language to students of French expression. She won the Eko Award for the Furtherance of Literature from the City of Iowa (prose category) for her novel Christmas Carols in June. She is married with three kids.