This collection results from the author's experiences in Hamilton, Ontario, where he has a home, and his travels to several Caribbean islands and the United States as a person of multiple locations and origins: Canadian, African, and Ghanaian.

The Hamilton poems also look at the experiences of immigrants, their disrupted lives and loves, their broken dreams. The history of Africa Village in Hamilton Mountain, now known as Concession Street Housing finds its way into these poems. The Caribbean poems, based on visits to St. Croix, St. Martin/St. Maarten, and The Commonwealth of Dominica, as a West African person, questions the poet's assumptions within the historical realities of these islands.

The poetry focuses on the present realities and how they are influenced by the past. The author's visit to Athens, Ohio, enabled him to reflect on the Appalachian Mountains. Voices from Kibuli Country is profoundly inspired by the African experience both in the homeland and in the Americas, where many Ghanaians ended up.

Dannabang Kuwabong, PhD is a professor of postcolonial Caribbean literature in English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. He has published widely on different fields in academic journals, contributed numerous essays in books and journals. His books include Rhetoric of Resistance, Labor of Love: The Ecopoetics of Nationhood in the Poetry and Prose of Lasana M. Sekou, Voices from Kibuli Country, Caribbean Blues & Love’s Genealogy. He has co-authored books including Myth Performance in African Diaspora Drama: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance, Mothers and Daughters, etc. His critical essays on Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian literature on mothering, have been published in numerous academic journals and books: Confluences I & II & III: Essays in the New Canadian Literature, Creative Contradictions, Positive Interferences, Caribbean Studies, Sargasso, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Mouth, Eleven Eleven, The Caribbean Writer, The Mouth, Interviewing the Caribbean, etc.

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"Certainly, when Kuwabong echoes the great Afro-Martiniquan poet, Aimé Césaire and less the too-stultified style of Anglo-Saxons like Auden and Eliot, he is magnificent. . .When he is committed to scribing History's raw wounds, the imagery itself scars." --George Elliot Clarke, Maple Tree Literary Supplement

"A powerful, incantatory work within the praise song tradition that limns locality, the local and the specific--rom Hamilton, Ontario, to St. Croix, West Indies; from the urban landscape of North America to the lush, verdant environment of the Caribbean. Kuwabong carefully and lovingly incises his poetry of place on the palimpsest of lost memory. His words summon long-forgotten ancestors who have never left us and draw a circle around the many disparate voices of Africa and the Afrospora. Voices from Kibuli Country is here, is there, is everywhere where the pain of exile exists." --M NourbeSe Philip, author of She Tries Her Tongue and Her Silence Softly Breaks

"An archipelagic adventure, Dannabang Kuwabong arrives in the second decade of the new century from seemingly random shores, sighing, singing, certain, with a poetic text of assiduous import." --Lasana M Sekou, author of The Salt Reaper

"These poems, lush, sharp, pliable and aromatic, are about love that one finds in a place and among a people, Haiti, St Croix, Dominica and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Each poem invites you to enter, rest and reflect for a while...A cohesive collection with great surprises." --Opal Palmer Adisa, author of Eros Muse and I Name Me Name