Voicing African Voices

Author

G.D. Nyamndi

G.D. Nyamndi

G.D. Nyamndi is a critic, playwright and essayist of some repute. He is the author of a play collection, The Silver Lining, and of the highly acclaimed political treatise, Whether Losing Whether Winning. Babi Yar Symphony is his first novel, to be followed in the months ahead by another one, Dogs in the Sun. He teaches Language and Literature at the University of Buea in Cameroon, where he is also Head of the Department of English.

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Dogs in the Sun

by G.D. Nyamndi

This compelling narrative pits the legacies of two men in the village of Nwemba. Winjala the Crude, yardman to the English surveyor Pete Harrington,…

Essays & Opinion Politics

Whether Losing, Whether Winning

by G.D. Nyamndi

Essays in Political Realism An enthralling journey down memory lane and up the future’s road, this study of history, politics and the future reaches…

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Babi Yar Symphony

by 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…

Drama Literature

Tussles. Collected Plays

by G.D. Nyamndi

This collection groups together four plays – {The Bite, Things Fall in Place, The Will and The Imprisonment of Sende Ghandi} – written between…

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