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Que faire face à la stagnation de l'Afrique ? Comment l'écrivain peut-il affronter les multiples maux qui gangrènent le monde d'aujourd'hui ? Dans ce recueil de poèmes, Nsah Mala adopte le genre poétique pour illustrer son engagement social et politique en évoquant des thématiques actuelles de son pays natal le Cameroun, de l'Afrique, et du monde entier. Ces thèmes sont, entre autres, la corruption, la déchéance de l'État et du pouvoir, la dérive de la démocratie, la protection de la nature, la promotion de la jeunesse, la marginalisation socio-politique, les ténèbres, et la liberté. Malgré l'ampleur des maux affrontés, Nsah Mala garde son optimisme et démontre que la poésie peut servir de moyen pour corriger et améliorer la société humaine et non-humaine. Faisant preuve de l'expérimentation et de l'innovation poétique, ce recueil trace une cartographie intéressante suivant son auteur à travers ses voyages infinis en Afrique, en Europe, et ailleurs. C'est aussi un moyen d'entrer en conversation avec les auteurs et les cultures de l'Afrique et du monde. Cette poésie organique et vitale, qui prend sa source dans l'humanité et la nature, donne la voix à tous les sans-voix et devra ainsi occuper une place importante dans toutes les bibliothèques du monde.

Africa's Brain Power is a collection of editorial entries penned by AfricaOnline's Executive Editor between March 2016 and December 2017. The collection covers a variety of topics from abortion and alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, migration, sexual harassment, polygamy, STEM education, social media, bribery and corruption and many other exciting themes.Ideas expressed in the reflections aimed to provoke discussion on AfricaOnline's Sunday afternoon live broadcasts and draw heavily from the author's rich broadcast journalism experience. Readers will find the themes deeply thought-provoking and the variety of topics fascinating. This is a highly-recommended reference for Africans seeking home-grown solutions to their sociocultural and educational challenges.

Beautiful Fire was awarded Best Book of 2020 by the African Literature Association"The inspired and well crafted poetry of Joyce Ash is a feast of life deepened and intensified through her poetic search for meaning. Here is a poet whose every movement into language challenges us out of our sentimental approaches to living. Her merciless insights translate reality into what it used to be, taking us to the long forgotten world where language, cultural roots, womanhood, and nature itself are experienced as vital parts of the republic of the self. Beautiful Fire is a book that shows us what poetry can be, a book that stays with you long after you have finished reading it." - Amir Or, author of Wings."Beautiful Fire radiates intimacy, passion, and sensitivity. This poetry touches us to our deepest core and awakens the warm emotions and humanity we can't ignore. Joyce Ash gathers images into a honeycomb that the reader tastes and keeps on devouring its sweetness. The highly imagistic poems proffer an enduring message that resonates with our private and public selves." - Tanure Ojaide, Poet and Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

This book provides an in-depth study of the nature and pattern of educational development in Cameroon from 1844 to the post-independence period. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including hitherto unused archival material and formal interviews with people involved in Cameroon's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial educational traditions, the result is an elegantly written history enlivened by illustrative texts and archival pictures.

Dance of the Kangaroos (The Riot shall not be Televised) is a collection of 42 poems on the socio-political and economic realities of a people polarised by bitter colonial experiences. Through the use of metaphor and other literary devices, closely knitted by an apprehensive sense of a first witness, the poems highlight experiences of oppression, marginalization, social justice and human rights abuse. Dance of the Kangaroos takes the reader on a journey that unveils the realities and challenges of postcolonial African society. It is one where the superior class have taken up the colonial whip and induced their subordinates to re-stage a colonial parody under indigénat, a policy used by the French in colonial Africa. Mbutoh draws on words and expressions from his African background and his knowledge of his people's colonial experiences to make each poem unique.

Recently widowed, Angelina Ibe, a smart, evangelical Christian and school teacher goes on an early morning evangelising mission and intentionally kills a python, one of the major totems in her community, Umuocha. This abominable act - at least viewed from the community's perspective, brings her into direct collision with Umuocha's guardians of tradition, led by the arch-conservative prime minister of Umuocha, Mazi Ikenga. Inevitably, the Igwe (King) of Umuocha, formerly a lawyer with a thriving practice in England, is embroiled in the drama. Whose side will he take and how far does Angelina's battle go? Find out as you read this epic battle of wills that pits Angelina against time-honoured patriarchal institutions and individuals, determined to get their way by every means and at all cost.

When strangers invade her village in 1910, young princess Samarah's knowledge of English unwittingly contributes to her capture. Forced into a life of servitude on a plantation far removed from her homeland, Samarah struggles with losing the life and people she had known and loved. Her mother and Bintum - her childhood love who seeks and reunites with her at the plantation- offer a sense of the familiar until tragedy strikes leaving Samarah alone and angry. As the son of Samarah,s employer, Mayne Patterson represents all that has caused pain, misery and uncertainty in Samarah,s life. Mayne is in love with Samarah and will do everything he can to get her. Can Samarah overcome all the hurt and misgivings to see Mayne for who he is and not what he embodies? Torn between the love to whom she is betrothed and her growing attraction to Mayne, Samarah must decide between her heart,s desires and her obligations to her homeland. This debut historical fiction is at once a story of love and identity as it is a portrait of aspects of colonial rule in Africa.