[Part 1] Oscar C. Labang For a very long time now, I have struggled with inner pressures not to join in this theoretical quibbling about Anglophone Cameroon Literature and just content my soul in a quiet corner and make my…
Petit Pays: Nudity and the King
Petit Pays owned the nineties. And if he didn’t own the entire decade, then he owned the most significant part of it. And if he didn’t own the airwaves, he certainly owned sidewalk speakers and dance floors. The ‘matinee’ generation…
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…
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…