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’.
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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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A Review of Gil Ndi-Shang’s The Radio and Other Stories by Nsah Mala* It must be pretty difficult to review or comment on a book after so many renowned scholars
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by Spears Books
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