This compendium pulsates with rage. A rage that had been smouldering with the intensity of a welder’s blowtorch for decades, before erupting into a full-flared conflagration. It is a literary buffet of Cameroonian poets, driven by the galvanizing idea to comment on the cataclysmic events that saw a seismic change in the socio-political landscape of…
While Beads of Memory tells the story of African students abroad that is familiar across generations, it is also a critique of western society and politics in post-independent Africa, and a celebration of family, friendship and tradition. That Jumbam successfully pulls this off in just 83 pages is a literary tour de force that must…