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Cameroon: News, Stories and Analysis.

Musih Tedji Xaviere

‘Love, in All Its Forms, Is Resilience’ Musih Tedji Xaviere’s First Draft

Cameroonian novelist, Musih Tedji Xaviere, says her debut novel, These Letters End in Tears, was inspired by the resilience of queer love: ‘The treatment of queer people in Cameroon is appalling, but what I find inspiring is that people still find love even in the hardest circumstances. They refuse to be stripped of their ability to love, no matter the challenges.’
CameroonFebruary/March 2025First DraftInterviews
Cameroon

A Song for Cameroon

As artists across the world sampled Manu Dibango’s ‘Soul Makossa’ for global hits, his original contribution faded into the background—a powerful metaphor for how Cameroon’s cultural exports are often consumed without recognition of their origins.
CameroonFebruary/March 2025
Cameroon

Cameroon’s Hi-Tech Illusion

Cameroon is currently led by the world’s oldest president, who, in recent years, has taken significant steps to ‘modernize’ the state through digital technology. With Paul Biya seeking re-election in 2025, Cameroonians have an added reason to pay critical attention to his national technological agenda.
CameroonFebruary/March 2025
Ololade Faniyi

‘Writing Comes From a Place of Danger and Struggle’ Patrice Nganang’s First Draft

Cameroonian academic and author of Dog Days, Patrice Nganang, says social media has led to his transformation as a writer: ‘Social media led to my imprisonment, helped me free a few hundred people from jail, build schools and bridges, and feed incarcerated individuals. Simply put, it made me the writer I always dreamed of becoming.’
Best of 2024: First DraftCameroonFirst DraftInterviewsJune/July 2024vol8-no3