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Marginalisation and the Consoling Quest for Intellectual Fulfilment

Book Reviews10 November 2024

The central idea on which the memoir as a narrative is sustained thus appears to be marginalisation and the consolatory quest for intellectual and professional fulfilment. The quest for education, intellectual and professional fulfilment, which takes Jumbam through academic institutions in parts of Cameroon, the West and North America, adds a journey-motif style to the…

A Review of When the Sun Turns Red

Book Reviews17 September 2024

In the tradition of the outpouring of emotions through all the expressions of song and dance, storytelling and now poetry, the war declared by Cameroon’s President Biya, against his country’s minority English-speaking population has delivered a burst of creativity amongst the long-suffering, determined yet marginalized population, like no other incentive in its 61 plus years…

A Review of Protecting Minority Language Rights

Book Reviews, Books, Current Issues16 April 2024

his is another seminal piece of work by an erudite scholar, writer, Advocate, and Pan-Africanist, Mwalimu George Ngwane on a contemporary issue that straddles academic and professional disciplines such as law, ethnology, linguistics, literature, human rights, heritage studies, and languages. The author has demonstrated his unmatched knowledge and knitted experiences of identity, cultural heritage and…

A Critique of Ekpe Inyang’s Tastes of Nature

Book Reviews, Literature, Poetry, Writing8 March 2024

Every day, we hear, with fright and horror, of horrifying destructions to Mother Earth. Thanks to social media and global TV networks, we watch in horror as our planet is buffeted by wild winds, torrential rains, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides… that bring destruction to our home, Mother Earth, and our lives and property. It’s like…

Listening to the Radio of Life

Book Reviews, Literature, Writing21 July 2022

A Review of Gil Ndi-Shang’s The Radio and Other Stories by Nsah Mala* It must be pretty difficult to review or comment on a book after so many renowned scholars and critics have variously and aptly described and praised it. That said, my commentary of this timely and timeless book will struggle to be as…

Book Review: What God Has Put Asunder

Book Reviews, Books30 January 2022

Ngome’s fictional work titled What God Has Put Asunder is a parody of a contemporary postcolonial African country, perhaps the Republic of Cameroon. Set against the backdrop of conflictual co-existence within the confines of an orphanage, this skillfully crafted drama takes the reader down memory lane. Ngome conveys his vision of postcoloniality and its vestiges…

Review of Litany of a Foreign Wife

Book Reviews, Poetry19 April 2021

The least one can say is that Nnane’s poetry is very manly… I can say dynamic, but it can transpire the ferocity, boldness, and even sexual rythm of her poetry…

Africa’s Path to Economic Development

Book Reviews27 July 2018

By Victor N. Gomia More than six decades after independence, the African continent remains on the last rung of world's economic ladder, not because there isn't potential but largely because respective and successive leaderships as well as the continent's peoples lack the fortitude to DARE. The continent's history is littered with pockets of civil strife, civil…

An Appraisal of Boundless

Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Romance, Literature, Writing7 March 2016

Boundless, Kefen Budji’s debut novel is a commendable coalescence of history and art. Its three parts and fifteen chapters structure with action unfolding from 1910 (Chapter 1) till October 1920 – April 1921 (Chapter 15) constitutes 243 pages of a racy, compelling complex of love stories.

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