Summary 

‘Shackled in darkness’ presents through a poetic format some of the burning, contemporary and existential issues facing humankind. The choice of poetry to re-present the said issues is based on an intention of avoiding a ‘dark and overly pessimistic painting’ of the same. The collection of poems is a clarion call for each and everyone to become not only aware of the present state of things, but to motivate humankind to make the necessary mind-set changes that can be the bases for veritable and sustainable sociocultural and ecological transformations.

‘Shackled in darkness’ is subdivided into the following seven parts: part 1 presents the concept of development as a series of ‘myths’ based on underlying voracious self-centeredness of ‘dominant world powers’; part 2 presents through graphic verses the HIV and AIDs scourge especially in Africa, which is sustained by certain cultural stereotypes; part 3 focuses on the causes of violence surrounding phenomena like apartheid, xenophobia, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the holocaust; part 4 is titled ‘rape of the mother’, that is, the systematic destruction by humankind of the inestimable resources of Mother Earth, with no care for future generations; part 5 which is ‘the twilight of the indigenous peoples’, highlights the sorry plight of the excluded, dispossessed, and brutalized Red Indians, Australian Aborigines, the Khoi-San of South Africa, and the Pygmies of the Equatorial Forests; part 6 focuses on pseudo-education systems that proliferate, and lead to massive unemployment, galloping underemployment, and frightening unemployability of the products of the former;  lastly part 7 highlights the psychosocial dramas and hopes accompanying the ongoing COVID – 19 pandemic.

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