In a future project, Bakwa will team up with The Ofi Press (Mexico), edited by Jack Little, and the Ofi Press will feature West African writers while Bakwa will feature Mexican writers. The Ofi Press is a monthly magazine which…
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The annihilation of memory is a pathology that still plagues the collective memory of a people in this globalized generation . The plethora of outlets for the written word is one way of keeping the word— and by extension our…
Visual Art by Eleanor Leonne Bennett
Get backbetteron Boat race Legs Metal meal Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth…
Sex As Gender/Power Politics Between Men and Women
Wirndzerem G. Barfee One of the first things that after strikes the sensibility of a sensitive reader is the originality of a book’s title. When it comes to poetry; that exigency is doubled. Lum Louisa, on this critical count,…
Four Poems by Fon Tuma
If You Believe the Stories He should never have gone back there for there was nothing left. A familiar familiar blew about the ruins of what was once a great strong-hold Where there should have been time, every other thing…
AYO : Music Is My Therapy
Interviewed by Belinda Otas With her earnest lyrics, a haunting and soothing sound and a raspy, seductive and magnetic voice, AYO has won adoring fans across Europe, North America and Africa, for her openness which many can relate to.…
Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema (An Excerpt from The Mwalimu’s Reader)
The state of cinema in Cameroon is an all too brooding subject. This is so because the vacuum created by the absence of home made films in a globalised movie world, makes of us a cultural laughing stock. Not that…
Down Media Memory Lane; A Review of The Mwalimu’s Reader
Dzekashu MacViban Fervent listeners of the radio programme Cameroon Calling— which has stood the test of time— will see The Mwalimu’s Reader as a time capsule because each piece will take them back to the period during…
