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  • Their Champagne Party Will End!

    2008, author(s)-editor(s) Dibussi Tande, Joyce Ashuntantang
    Poems in Honor of Bate Besong Bate Besong was Cameroon’s most vocal and controversial poet, playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a snapshot of the mood that prevailed after his death. Bate Besong ushered in a new kind of nationalist “fighting” literature in Cameroon, unapologetic in its defense of Cameroon’s Anglophone minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African dictators and their (...)

  • First Harvests: A Collection of Poems from Nkongho-Mboland

    2013, author(s)-editor(s) Esendugue Gregory Fonsah, Fonkeng E.F.
    First Harvests are expressions of impressions on a variety of local and universal phenomena and states of being. It is the first ever poetry collection by a few sons and daughters of Nkongho-Mbo, a subgroup of the Mbo ethnic group of Cameroon, on which very little has been published. The poems however transcend the geographical, cultural and emotional landscapes that have inspired them. ISBN 9789956728046 | 76 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2012 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | (...)

  • Cameroon Anthology of Poetry

    2013, author(s)-editor(s) Bole Butake
    In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a testament on the universality of poetry. It is an invitation for those in tune with poetry to reaffirm its magic and to spread the warmth of its embrace in celebration of a common and boundless humanity. ISBN (...)

  • The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories

    2014, author(s)-editor(s) Christopher M. Mabeza, Munyaradzi Mawere
    The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness a snapshot, richness, and practical potentialities of childhood to adulthood experiences in shaping, inspiring and influencing moral rectitude, industriousness and determination. This is an incisive and invigorating exposé steeped in candour and earnestness. For aficionados of creative writing, (...)

  • Experimental Writing: Africa vs Latin America Vol 1

    2017, author(s)-editor(s) Ricardo Felix Rodriguez, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
    Literatura Experimental: África vs América Latina Vol 1 This project come out from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being and on thinking for the benefit of all. It was also an opportunity to create literary friendships and contacts between these two great regions. Generally, Latin America and Africa still have a lot of stories to share among (...)

  • Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology

    2017, author(s)-editor(s) Daniel da Purificação, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
    Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel (...)