During this hour of challenges and perplexity amounting to putrid and dazzling socio-cultural darkness, albeit being perceived as enlightened existence, soothing and reassuring religious nudges come to play in Throes as the spiritual impulse is frequently summoned to guide, calm, reassure, and redirect souls to that which is most important. Hence the gentle hints, with vivid imagery directed at the Cross, amidst much else, for mankind to fall back and reconsider the role of the spiritual in his/her existence, as opposed to the secular, in hopes that human beings will imbue their lives with a form of sanity, of sacrality, in the face of varied ongoing challenges.

EMMANUEL FRU DOH holds a Ph.D from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Poet, novelist, social, and literary critic, Emmanuel Fru Doh is the author of Anglophone Cameroon Literature: An Introduction. He teaches in the Department of English at Century College, Minnesota, USA.