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Cameroon

April 9, 2022

Nana Nkweti on Writing Cameroonian American Experiences & Crossing Genres

The professor of English and Whiting Award-winning author of the story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells talks her eclectic interests and “containing multitudes.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Nana Nkweti by Shea Sadulski/Out of Focus Studio.

July 12, 2021

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Review—Oil Politics in a Tussling Village

The Cameroonian’s second novel incorporates storytelling elements from the Old Testament, where the destinies of marginalized peoples are entrenched in the communal and the spiritual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

June 25, 2021

Cameroon’s New Literary Generation Comes of Age, as Anglophone Crisis Deepens

The central African country’s two politico-cultural systems clashed from the beginning. But in the last 10 years, literary production increased and a conscious community formed, and at the heart of it is Bakwa Magazine.
Otosirieze
Cameroonian writers (L-R): Howard Meh-Buh Maximus, Louisa Lum, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Nelson Kamkuimo, Monique Kwachou; Dzekashu MacViban, Nana Nkweti.

June 18, 2021

Bakwa Magazine at 10: Celebrating a Decade of Disruption

We are hosting events, podcasts, and readings in Yaounde, London, and Berlin. Consolidated and recomposed back issues (1-8) will be available for free, and issues 9-10 for sale in physical and eBook formats.
Bakwa Magazine
Bakwa 10: Family Politricks. Credit: Bakwa Magazine.

May 3, 2021

Bakwa’s Issue 10, Family Politricks, Looks Inside the Home

The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Bakwa 10: Family Politricks. Credit: Bakwa Magazine.

April 30, 2021

Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with Editor David Ebershoff

Center for Fiction
Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with Editor David Ebershoff

April 18, 2021

In Her Debut, Nana Nkweti Crosses Genres to Explore the Cameroonian American Experience

The short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells “pulls from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Nana Nkweti's Walking on Cowrie Shells.

April 9, 2022

Nana Nkweti by Shea Sadulski/Out of Focus Studio.

Nana Nkweti on Writing Cameroonian American Experiences & Crossing Genres

The professor of English and Whiting Award-winning author of the story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells talks her eclectic interests and “containing multitudes.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

July 12, 2021

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Review—Oil Politics in a Tussling Village

The Cameroonian’s second novel incorporates storytelling elements from the Old Testament, where the destinies of marginalized peoples are entrenched in the communal and the spiritual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

June 25, 2021

Cameroonian writers (L-R): Howard Meh-Buh Maximus, Louisa Lum, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Nelson Kamkuimo, Monique Kwachou; Dzekashu MacViban, Nana Nkweti.

Cameroon’s New Literary Generation Comes of Age, as Anglophone Crisis Deepens

The central African country’s two politico-cultural systems clashed from the beginning. But in the last 10 years, literary production increased and a conscious community formed, and at the heart of it is Bakwa Magazine.
Otosirieze

June 18, 2021

Bakwa 10: Family Politricks. Credit: Bakwa Magazine.

Bakwa Magazine at 10: Celebrating a Decade of Disruption

We are hosting events, podcasts, and readings in Yaounde, London, and Berlin. Consolidated and recomposed back issues (1-8) will be available for free, and issues 9-10 for sale in physical and eBook formats.
Bakwa Magazine

May 3, 2021

Bakwa 10: Family Politricks. Credit: Bakwa Magazine.

Bakwa’s Issue 10, Family Politricks, Looks Inside the Home

The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 30, 2021

Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with Editor David Ebershoff

Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with Editor David Ebershoff

Center for Fiction

April 18, 2021

Nana Nkweti's Walking on Cowrie Shells.

In Her Debut, Nana Nkweti Crosses Genres to Explore the Cameroonian American Experience

The short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells “pulls from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

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