Foreword -- The Rosetta Stone in the meantime of eternity -- The bond-oath of Ubuntu -- Still life: lilly lawns ... little legon ... moonlight ballet -- A concerto for the black satellites: in the stoolroom of the soul -- The guillotine of time: fanfare for the uncommon woman -- Fanfare for cabral -- Watu Wazuri -- Evensong at Soweto -- Mandela the spear -- A somersault of the midnight: Nelson Mandela, the African warrior -- On the soulscape of the bullet train -- A tea ceremony for the neutron bomb -- Birds: Regina and Betty -- Dar es Salaam: Haizel at the 38th parallel -- Kwabenya -- An now to end the world news: Agegeyan Gethsemane -- Postscript -- Notes to the poems -- About the author.