Writing

In “The Accent Debacle” novelist and teacher, Richard Kumengisa shares his experience of prejudice as an African in Florida. Having fled his native land due to a raging conflict in the English-speaking zones of Cameroon, Kumengisa spent his time with family and also busied himself with memoir writing classes amongst many other activities. When Covid-19 hit, his classes went virtual, and he continued his lessons in the sanctuary of his family’s home. Little did we know he would succumb to the virus in May 2021.
To mark the second anniversary of his passing, we are delighted to publish his story which he enthusiastically shared with us in February 2021.

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

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’.