The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha Maria Stepanova which represents the book itself

which represents the book itself as 'a star-surrounded totem pole/ With carvings of all the creatures'

Addressing a period of acute depression

Wong's letter of introduction to a young Dostoevsky scholar heading a department had directed his feet

and sound of conflicted experience

This book makes a critical intervention in the shaping of diasporic writing

The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha Maria Stepanova which represents the book itselfIn The New Carthaginians, time and with it the world is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that leads to Uganda becoming a pariah state and later to the young Makoha's escape from the country. Concerned throughout with flight and falling, the sample and the loop, The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection of staggering originality: a work by an author at the height of his powers, in