"Dreamed Africa and real Africa constantly rub shoulders in Kama Sywor Kamanda's book, "Songs of Mists". In him, his roots. In him, his deep sense of being a singer. And through a broad lyricism that sweeps across the pages, this poet confesses his freedom, his identity, that of a black man who feels his black sisters and brothers living within him. It is above all an exaltation of his people, of their fevers, their dramas, their joys. An underground song that psalmodizes, an aerial song that pierces the air and calls for the air of other continents. "Jacques Izoard.

While making us discover, in all its brightness, his African sensibility through his roots, the poetry of Kama Sywor KAMANDA in The Resignations marks its kinship, its proximity and its equality with the modern man by testifying of the unity of the world conceived, built and destroyed by the man, of the world in its ways and deviations towards our time of today. The poetry of Kama Sywor Kamanda is the awakened word of our contemporary, which, while plunging into its roots and those of the world, is moving towards future times.

"What is this land where no one speaks, where the stars refuse to shine? It could be everywhere, land torn from its soil, as everywhere, in the depths of human consciousness. To live would be to recognize it and to work for its liberation, as in the blaze of time the challenge to death. To be reborn is made of adventitious as well as tracing roots. But let us not anticipate. For the moment, nothingness. Here: absence of an essential thing, the anguish that it causes, its wound. The waiting writes your elegy on the shadow which flees you. In The Sum of Nothingness, this specificity fades, the...

"Eternity ceaselessly crosses our steps and our gestures like the wind", superbly affirms Kama Sywor KAMANDA, poet of all the exiles but also of all the fertile dreams likely to put an end to it because "there are dreams of plenitude which approach immortality". In this solemn tone, heavy with millennial wisdom, we immediately recognize a poet-prophet whose word knows how to be embodied, muscled with images and clothed with the immense epidermis of sensuality.

"Love is the recurring theme of this collection, but the author avoids déjà vu at every turn. It is a sensual and voluptuous love. The woman is considered as the "land of rebirth". Despite love, loneliness does not leave the poet of exile. Kamanda's stylistic range is extensive. His lyricism has expanded from book to book from "Chants de brumes" (1986) to "L'étreinte des mots" (1995). As his experience of people and the world grows, his breath becomes more powerful. Kamanda is in search of similarities, of identification with beings and things. He has a porous soul. He is wind, thunder,...

Ranavalona III, the last Queen of Madagascar, is neither a femme fatale nor a cruel ruler. She is a victim of the barbarity of an era: the tragic one of colonialism and slavery from which the African continent suffered. A character of high stature with great integrity and exceptional dignity, she embodies the Malagasy soul and inhabits the dreams of all human rights defenders. She expresses in an authentic way the sufferings of generations. Ranavalona III is a historical work, initiating and useful to the knowledge of the past-present of Africa. It teaches us and roots us in the African...