Gods in The Ivory Towers

About the Book

A play set on a mythical hill, Ngoa and centred around Ngwa, the protagonist. Both mythic and contemporary, challenging and innovative full of accerbic social criticism, wisdom and political meaning, the culminating point in this play is when the protagonist is cast out of the scene and the Narrator alone on stage wonders and wishes the audience told him whether or not to “continue crying for the village, sadly or joyfully.” A turn which, in this captivating play, marks an arresting moment recalling the works of Strindberg in terms of character interaction, entrances and exits as well as the works of Ibsen in terms of its philosophy.

About the Author

Bill, poet, playwright, storyteller and critic, was born in 1964 in Bamunka, Ndop, North West Province of Cameroon. At four, he went to live with his grandmother and attend primary school.

He was educated in Cameroon, Nigeria and France.

He has taught at various Universities: the Paris School of Languages, Paris Cergy-Pontoise University, the University of the Sunshine Coast and the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He now lives in Melbourne where he teaches at Deakin University.

He is the author of several books of poems, including Mishaps and Other Poems, K'Cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Epigrams Maybe. And in French translation, A Fighting Sailor Turn’d Peaceable Christian. Bill F. NDI is presently working on three volumes of Poems and two other plays.