Building the Nation and Other Poems

Building the nation and other poems
Building the nation and other poems
Author Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow
Country Uganda
Language English
Publisher Fountain Publishers
Publication date
2000
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 117
ISBN 9970021915

Building the nation and other poems is a collection of seventy six poems by Ugandan poet Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow.[1] The poems are divided into seven sections: "Politicians, servants and sycophants", "The jungles of humanity", "Arguments with God", "Random portraits", "Of nature", "The rich live amalgam", and "Of love and all that". The poems deal with diverse themes like political opportunism and sycophancy, war, the paradox of God and the richness and beauty of nature.

Critical reception

The poems have received mainly positive reviews.

References

  1. "Henry Barlow: The builder of the nation is gone". http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/25/516840. External link in |website= (help);


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