Renewing the Promise by Julius Nyamkimah Fondong is a 154-page storied history of Cameroon’s failed attempt at yoking together its disparate peoples into a nation with a common, consensual destiny.
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Julius Fondong’s Renewing the Promise
This book is an illuminating window and an epic in education, as Julius Fondong writes incisively on the current situation in Cameroon. The writer’s modest pitch, which is almost apologetic, is an invitation to the reader to stand on this vista and gaze upon the nation, now on the brink of a disaster.
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A Review of When the Sun turns Red: Women’s Tears from a Land in Despair Yaah Maggie Kilo, PhD In the tradition of outpouring of emotions through all the expressions
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A Poetic Book Review By Nkam Giftus You dig deep into the crevices of time, Excavating long-lost tales of our land – Your pen knows neither rest nor relief, For
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G is a young man from Cameroon, who leaves his distant village in the northwestern part of Cameroon to do a PhD in a small Bavarian town in Germany. G’s crossing soon turns into a profound ontological interaction with small things, from shoe polish to a radio ‘helplessly pressed to the corner by a mound of books’.
Read moreTranslocation narratives, travelogues and memoir in “The Radio”
As a voracious reader interacting with authors and the contexts of their works, you will certainly agree that it is a literary exercise in futility to attempt to completely vanish a writer from their works in an attempt to achieve objectivity. Like a biological child that bears its parents’ DNA as permanent mark of identity and relationship to its source, a writer’s output bears prints of their convictions, elements of their lived or be-lived experiences, and characteristics of their persuasions on a given subject matter. This is the truth that I’m confronted with when I finally get to read Gil Ndi-Shang’s recently published short story anthology, “The Radio and Other Stories”.
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