Voicing African Voices

Author

John Nkemngong Nkengasong

John Nkemngong Nkengasong is a Cameroonian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. His major publications include Black Caps and Red Feathers (2001), Across the Mongolo (2004), W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot: Myths and Poetics of Modernism (2005),The Widow’s Might (2006) and A Stylistic Guide to Literary Appreciation (2007). He has been a Fulbright scholar at New York University, guest writer at the University of Oxford, visiting academic at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and recently a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He is currently Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.

Drama Literature

The Call of Blood

by John Nkemngong Nkengasong

Efenze, the President of the Board of Directors of government companies and a member of the Central Committee of the Ruling Party, eliminates his…

Literature Poetry

Letters to Marion (And the Coming Generations)

by John Nkemngong Nkengasong

In this rich and compelling collection of poems the author explores the recesses of the imagination to reveal the different facets of contemporary experience.…

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