"The gasping wind was dry and hostile. You could smell the menu of dust

it was dishing out to leaves and branches it has transformed into jackets of

dust." Far from being just a textualization of environment, Rustles on

Naked Trees paints a gruesome picture of a raging fire that consumes

everything along its track and thus necessitates relocation of victims

from the disaster-prone area to a more secured, but, uninhabited dry

land, which itself needs preservation and conservation. The discourse

attempts to locate the plane where literature meets ecology, and should

be understood as an invitation to readers to excavate environmental literature,

or mine sites of ecology fossilized in works of arts. At the time

literature is becoming aware that environmental issues can constitute

high calorie - nourishing sources of literary milk ready to breast-feed

lovers of literary Ecological tradition, writers willing to contribute to

this eco-critical turn may find the effects of ecological processes like

bush fires, land dryness, environmental pollution and tree planting of

interest to them.

P. K. Nkamanyang Lola

By obliterating the dichotomy between literature and ecology, environment

and human life, Lola's Rustles on Naked Trees not only transcends

the duality of art and life, human and the natural worlds... it is a response

to today's global ecological crisis [and] constitutes a clarion call to

Cameroonians to protect their environment before it is too late.

Dr. Nforbin Gerald Niba