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2008, author(s)-editor(s) G.D. Nyamndi
This unique work lifts the African question out of the dust. Against the backdrop of prison life, it explores the complex reality of being an African in today’s world. Through the tight sensitivity and illuminating knowledge of its two principal characters, themselves victims of misplaced justice, greed and lust, it captures the pain and sadness that almost always comes in the wake of betrayal and egotism. The work’s message is strong, and is delivered with equal strength by characters whose (...)
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2008, author(s)-editor(s) Kwo Victor Elame Musinga,
Roselyne M. Jua
As a veteran playwright and actor, Kwo Victor Elame Musinga is more than just a pioneer in popular theatre. His simple but profound messages demonstrate a depth of understanding and insight into human nature and the nature of society. The texts he crafts are universal and timeless in their content and appeal, even as the themes and situations that inspire them are localized in specific places, experiences and histories. The Barn is a collection of three topical plays. Njema captures the (...)
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2008, author(s)-editor(s) Sammy Oke Akombi
This collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of man. The observation brought this writer to the conclusion that man is dominated by fear and in his effort to conquer it, he resorts to unbridled aggression. Such aggression has been very instrumental in much of the success that humanity has been able to achieve, so far. But at the same time, the same aggression in man’s nature has (...)
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2010, author(s)-editor(s) Shadrach A. Ambanasom
Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama today. For over two decades now socio-political developments in Cameroon, including the liberalization of the press, have led to an unprecedented proliferation of political, journalistic and imaginative writings. Availing themselves of their new-found freedom of expression, Cameroonians in general are forcefully articulating their views more than (...)
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2008, author(s)-editor(s) Ba’bila Mutia
The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life. Reading the poems constitutes an individual journey. This poetic journey from Awakening that takes the reader to Moonlight Spells & Wreaths and leads her/him through Laments to the Epilogue is a continuous movement in the search for humanity’s existence. As a (...)
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2007, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh
ISBN 9789956558032 | 76 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2007 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback
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2010, author(s)-editor(s) John Nkemngong Nkengasong
Efenze, the President of the Board of Directors of government companies and a member of the Central Committee of the Ruling Party, eliminates his erstwhile business contractor, Sancheu, with the complicity of the latter’s wife. His aim is to inherit Sancheu’s widow and wealth and to forge his way into the Political Bureau of the Party.The Call of Blood is a dramatization of evil in its multifaceted dimensions including treachery, infidelity, greed, hypocrisy, double-crossing and vaulting (...)
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2010, author(s)-editor(s) Tah Asongwed
Child of Earth is the story of Achu, a young African boy who loses his mother when he is still a baby. He is raised by his father in a household teeming with wives and children. Then the father dies and the task of raising Achu devolves on his aunt, his father’s sister, who is married to one of the richest and most powerful men in the country. But the aunt is jealous because Achu is doing better in school than her own children . . .
ISBN 9789956616015 | 200 pages | 200 | 2010 | (...)
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2009, author(s)-editor(s) Tikum Mbah Azonga
Cup Man and Other Stories is a collection of eight fictional short stories on themes such as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West. The stories are a reflection of everyday life with all that goes with it. Each story is complete it itself, with all its humour, wit and figures of speech. Azonga’s attention to detail and alert memory enable him to draw on memory and things past in a fascinating way. He (...)
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2008, author(s)-editor(s) Alobwed’Epie
The Day God Blinked x-rays the politico-economic and socio-moral life of a rich and resourceful country called Ewawa from 1982 to 2007. The country had been ruled by a dynamic and insightful miser known as the Old Man. But because he had been in power for too long, his citizens longed for change. It happened when nobody expected it. The old man died suddenly in his sleep and was replaced by his handpicked successor. Unfortunately, the successor whom everybody had expected would do better (...)
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