Peeping through the Millennium

Peeping through the Millennium is a collection of more than fifty poems. The Poems deal with what people would experience in a millennium era. The poems tackle problems that people are facing in this era. New developments that have been solutions to outstanding issues such as issues of inclusive education and girls' education have been applauded.

In brief, the poems are discussing contemporary issue. Besides, some poems have been written for fun especially to the young children as one way of instilling in them a reading culture. Poems, such as The Baobab Tree and The Letter, just to mention a few, achieve that motive. Places of beauty have been sighted to promote tourism in this era. There are other poems that appreciate the political landscape.

The poems have been written in the manner that they should offer an excitement in reading due to vivid descriptions, apart from conveying the message. Anyone who has been to Africa will appreciate the contents formost of it reflects situations in Africa. To areas elsewhere in the world where climate change effects have played a major role in adjusting human living conditions to a lesser extent, hopefully the poems in the book are suitable to share and compare the experiences. For those not affected, well, opportunities are there through them to capture a glimpse of scenarios out there and have knowledge about them.

One may ask, why poems? From experience, many contemporary issues that affect our lives have been published in books in long prose written forms as such. Though very important, they create boredom and many readers do not finish reading such important messages, let alone interesting fictitious novels that are only for fun. To address the issue, the writer opted to convey the message to the prospective readers through poems which are shorter but carry all the necessary information. The poems are direct to the point.