In this collection, Doh straddles the Atlantic with voices that doubt, question, and lament the black predicament; voices that evoke the wisdom of Africa’s…
Emmanuel Fru Doh

Emmanuel Fru Doh
Emmanuel Fru Doh holds a PhD in English (Literature emphasis) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Between 1990 and 1997 he taught African Literature at the University of Yaounde I (ENS Bambili), Cameroon, during which time he established himself as a major voice in Cameroon’s literary arena. An accomplished teacher, poet, and critic, Emmanuel Fru Doh currently teaches in the Department of English at Century College, Minnesota, U.S.A. where he is also Associate Editor of Phantasmagora.
In Boundaries, Musang, from the Grassfields, falls in love with Etonde from the Coast. Although aware of some existing tension and unfounded mistrust between…
The Life and Works of Bate Besong On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon’s foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours…
ISBN 9789956791835 Pages 72 Dimensions 203 x 127mm Published 2014 Publisher Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Format Paperback
In Nomads, Emmanuel Fru Doh combines historical fact, legend, and rumour to emerge with a memoir charged with nostalgia. In the process, he merges…
ISBN 9789956579877 Pages 92 Dimensions 203 x 127 mm Published 2011 Publisher Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon Format Paperback
Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about “Africa,” as Westerners love to refer…
ORIKI’BADAN, is an entertaining, revealing, and equally didactic poem in which Doh, through an enchanting metaphorical backdrop, recaptures a memorable era-rich, diverse, challenging, yet…
Wading the Tide is an expression of profound emotions touching on a wide range of issues-personal and political-from the birth of the Cameroon nation,…
In Africa, there is unrest, and possibly tragedy, when new trends clash with traditional values. With a curmudgeonly stepmother who harasses her even as…