Cameroon Literature in English

Celebrating the Literature Renaissance in Anglophone Cameroon (former British Southern Cameroons)

Monday, March 23, 2009

Debut Novel by Yungsi Ernest Kiyah

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Yungsi Ernest Kiyah. To Immigrate Or To Live Happily Ever After ? AuthorHouse. 2008, 316pp Product Description Dave is denied a visa to the...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Oriki'badan by Emmanuel Fru Doh (Poetry)

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Emmanuel Fru Doh. Oriki'badan . Langaa publishers, 2009. ORIKI'BADAN, is an entertaining, revealing, and equally didactic poem in w...

Pilgrimage of no Retreat by Larry Bate Takang (Poetry)

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Larry Bate Takang. Pilgrimage of no Retreat . A&A Printers, Florida, 2009. 86 pgs. The poems in this collection though philosophical, d...
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Bird of the Oracular Verb by Wirndzerem G. Barfee (Poetry)

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Wirndzerem G. Barfee. Bird of the Oracular Verb . 2009 Wirndzerem G. Barfee's poetry is very exciting and seems to be developing in all...

Gods in the Ivory Tower - A Play by Bill Ndi

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Bill F. Ndi. Gods in the Ivory Tower . Authorhouse , 2008. A play set on a mythical hill, Ngoa and centred around Ngwa, the protagonist. Bo...

(Poetry) Words Lost in the Wind by Ndzdemo Romauld

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Ndzdemo Ngong Romauld. Words Lost in the Wind . Red Room , 2008. Synopsis: In words lost on the wind, we enter into a world of beauty and l...

Mishaps and Other Poems by Bill Ndi

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Bill F. Ndi. Mishaps and Other Poems, Authorhouse , 2008. The poems presented in Mishaps are highly varied, impressively experimental, sens...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Plantation Stories and Rhymes from Cameroon By Vivian Yenika

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Vivian Yenika. Plantation Stories and Rhymes from Cameroon . iUniverse, 2007. 76 p. In Plantation Stories, we participate in the daily ritua...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Tragedy of Mr. No-Balance by Victor Musinga

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Kwo Victor Elame Musinga. The Tragedy of Mr. No-Balance . Edited by Roselyne Jua. Langaa publishers, 2oo8. Available at amazon.com and Afri...

The Day God Blinked by Alobwed'Epie

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Alobwed'Epie. The Day God Blinked. Langaa publishers, 2008. 116 p. Available at Michigan State University Press and African Books Col...

No Turning Back: Poems of Freedom, 1990 – 1993 by Dibussi Tande

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Dibussi Tande. No Turning Back: Poems of Freedom, 1990 – 1993. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Publishers. 2007. 72 pages. No Turning Back reli...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Profile: Oscar Chenyi Labang

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Oscar Chenyi Labang is a native of Nsei Village, Ndop plains, in the Ngoketunjia Division of the North West Province, Cameroon. He attended...

This is Bonamoussadi by Oscar Chenyi Labang

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Oscar Chenyi Labang. This is Bonamoussadi. Lulu.com , 2008, 60 pages. This is Bonamoussadi gives insight into the imagination of a remar...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Profile: John Nkemngong NKENGASONG

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John Nkemngong NKENGASONG (Novelist, Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright) is a prolific writer and literary critic whose work ranges across ge...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Barn. Three Plays by Victor Elame Musinga

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The Barn. Three Plays by Victor Elame Musinga. Edited by Roselyne N. Jua. Langaa Publishers, 2008. As a veteran playwright and actor, Kwo V...

K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and other Poems by Bill Ndi

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Bill F Ndi. K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and other Poems . Langaa Publishers, 2008. 124 pages. “K’cracy, metonym for the reign of klepto...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Verdict of the Gods by Janet Ekaney

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Janet Ekaney. Verdict of the gods . Cameroon, Buma Kor Publishers Ltd. 2008, 208 pages. The book Verdict of the gods tells in lurid detail...
Monday, July 7, 2008

Lemonade Street by Bernice Angoh

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Bernice Angoh. Lemonade Street . Publish America, 2007. 200 pages Intense, real, obsessive, heart-wrenching and shameless are just a few wor...

Profile: Bernice Angoh

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Bernice Angoh was born in Buea in Cameroon, West Africa and came to the United States of America in 1999. Bernice has a four year old daught...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

House of Falling Women by Rosemary Ekosso

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Rosemary E. Ekosso. House of Falling Women. Cameroon . Langaa Publishers, May 2008. 328 pages. Available on Amazon.com, African Books Collec...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Their Champagne Party Will End! Poems in Honor of Bate Besong

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Joyce Ashuntantang, Dibussi Tande. (eds). Their Champagne Party Will End! Poems in Honor of Bate Besong , Langaa, 2008, 76 pp. Bate Besong w...

Coils of Mortal Flesh by Ba'bila Mutia

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Ba'bila Mutia. Coils of Mortal Flesh . Langaa , 2008. 84 pp. The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the sing...

Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment by Peter Vakunta

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Peter W. Vakunta. Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment . Langaa Publishers , 2008. 80 pp. Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment is an a...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Fire On The Mountain by Mathew Takwi

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Mathew Takwi. Fire On The Mountain . Bamenda: NAB VENTURES.2008 When Takwi published Fire On The Mountain , the fiery bowels of Cameroon...

Manna of a Life and Other Stories by Eunice Ngongkum

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Eunice Ngongkum. Manna of a Life and Other Short Stories. Yaounde: Éditions CLÉ, 2007, 116 pages. And very much like Chaucer who uses the s...
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Precipice by Susan Nde Nkwentie

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Susan Nkwentie Nde. Precipice . Langaa Publishers , 2008. 192 pages (paperback). Available from Amazon.com Madam Essin stood watching the yo...
Friday, March 14, 2008

NTARIKON: Poetry For the Downtrodden By Peter Vakunta

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Peter W. Vakunta. NTARIKON: Poetry For the Downtrodden (Paperback). AuthorHouse. 96 pages (February 17, 2008). $10.49. Available from amazo...
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Times and Seasons by Dipita Kwa

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Dipita Kwa. Times and Seasons . Cook Communication, 2008. 275 pages. Available from lulu.com $15.98 How does it feel to live without an id...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

"Titabet and the Takumbeng" by Kehbuma Langmia

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Kehbuma Langmia. Titabet and the Takumbeng . Langaa Publishers, 2008. Available on amazon.com and African Books Collective . $16.95. The un...
Friday, February 8, 2008

Man Pass Man and Other Stories by Ndely Mokoso

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Ndeley Mokoso. Man Pass Man & Other Stories. London, England: Longman Publishing Group. 1988, 112p. " Ndeley Mokoso represents a f...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Souls Forgotten by Francis Nyamnjoh

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Francis Nyamnjoh. Souls Forgotten. Bamenda, Langaa Publishers. 2008, 360 pages One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child g...

Grassfields Stories from Cameroon by Peter Vakunta

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Peter W. Vakunta. Grassfields Stories from Cameroon . Bamenda, Langaa Publishers. 2008. 104 p. Grassfields Stories from Cameroon is an anth...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Tale of an African Woman by Jing Thomas

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Jing Thomas. Tale of an African Woman . Bamenda. Langaa Publishers. 332 pages. December 2007. Available on amazon.com The village of Yakiri...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Namondo. Child of the Water Spirits by Ntemfac Ofege

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Ntemfac A.N. Ofege. Namondo. Child of the Water Spirits. Bamenda , Langaa publishers. November 2007. Available from Michigan State Universit...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007

John Ngong Kum Wins First EduArt Literature Award

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The winner of the 2007 EduArt Awards for Cameroonian Literature written in English has been announced. John Ngong Kum is the winner of the...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Profile: Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi AKA "Makuchi"

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Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi was born and raised in Cameroon. She was educated at the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, and McGill University in Mon...
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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba by Makuchi

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Makuchi. The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba . Ohio University Press. (January 1, 2008), 176 pages Book Descr...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

What God Has Put Asunder by Victor Epie Ngome

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Ngome, V.E. (1992), What God Has Put Asunder. Yaounde: Pitcher Books. Ltd. We will begin our analysis of the Cameroonian plays with Victor E...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

The Princess of Kaya by Dorothy Atabong

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Dorothy Atabong. The Princess Kaya . Sadorian Publications, 2002. 300 pages Dorothy A. Atabong’s debut novel, THE PRINCESS OF KAYA is a uni...

Chopchair by Linus Asong

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Linus Asong. Chopchair A quick-tempered and extremely irritable Fuo Akendong II learns with utter disappointment that his favorite wife had...
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