Barbed Forest draws from the socio-political character of society-specific societies sometimes. It navigates its way from the political to the familial and ultimately personal concerns of humankind before projecting the positive "humanist vision" of which the poet cum freedom songster dreams.

Bill F. Ndi, is an Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Tuskegee University. His research interests include Early Quakerism, internationalism, translation and translatology, literary theory and criticism, global cultural and media studies.