How long does it take to read When Bullets Begin to Flower?
Margaret Dickinson
When Bullets Begin to Flower by Margaret Dickinson takes about 2 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 24 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1972. 131 pages, about 36,025 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The resilient will-power of the freedom fighters in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, their devotion and determination, their courage in the face of tremendous odds and, above all, their quintessential love for their Land of Africa and her hopes shine out from this inspiring collection. These are some of the most moving resistance poems ever written. They make sad reading, but at the same time they leave one in no doubt whatsoever that the cause of freedom, for which so many lives have been sacrificed, will soon triumph over even the most relentless forms of colonialism.
Subjects: African poetry, English poetry, African poetry (Portuguese)
