Cameroon

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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