Voicing African Voices

Author

Ida Ngongkum

Ida Ngongkum is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Biosystems Engineering at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petrochemical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. Ida is a budding poet who won second prize for the maiden edition of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers Association (ACWA) poetry awards in the Children's category in 2009. Restless Mind and other poems is her first collection of poems.

Literature Poetry

Restless Mind and other poems

by Ida Ngongkum

Restless Mind and other poems is a collection of thirty-seven poems which strives to enrich the reader’s understanding of the human condition, emotion, grief, passion,…

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