Associate Professor of English Literary and Cultural Studies, Pepertua K. Nkamanyang LOLA, has dedicated over 25 years to various roles, including Research and Documentation Officer at the Giessen Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig University in Germany. She has also lectured at the Universities of Douala, Dschang, and Bamenda, served as Head of Service for Extra-African Cooperation at the University of Bamenda, and held the positions of First Deputy Mayor and Cultural Attaché at the High Commission of Cameroon in Nigeria.
An award-winning playwright (2015) and nominee for the 2024 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize for her work The Lock on my Lips, she is also a literary critic, poet, and novelist with publications in both national and international journals. Some of her notable works include The Lock on My Lips (drama), Rustles on Naked Trees (fiction), Healing Stings (poetry), Fictions of Memory: An Intercultural Study, and Representing Fictional Minds and Consciousness: Analysis of Some Cameroon (African) English Narratives.
Biography
Pepertua K Nkamanyang LOLA holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.