Cameroon Archives

What Burns in Bafut Is More Than a Place

Achille Tenkiang·July 20, 2025

To Cameroonians, the Bafut Palace is more than a historical landmark; it is the heart of a living culture, where rituals bind the present to the past. Yet today, the palace stands under siege, its legacy threatened by the Anglophone crisis that has engulfed parts of Cameroon. Read More...

Cameroon June/July 2025

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

Musih Tedji Xaviere·March 30, 2025

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.’ Read More...

Cameroon February/March 2025 First Draft Interviews

A Song for Cameroon

Achille Tenkiang·March 9, 2025

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. Read More...

Cameroon February/March 2025

The Power of Looking at the Everyday

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing·February 16, 2025

In her narrative feature debut, Mambar Pierrette, Cameroonian documentarian, Rosine Mbakam, captures life in crisis-stricken Cameroon and the resilience and fortitude that Cameroonian women must embody every day. Read More...

Cameroon February/March 2025

Cameroon’s Hi-Tech Illusion

Georges Macaire Eyenga·February 16, 2025

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. Read More...

Cameroon February/March 2025

Cameroon’s Axis of Power

Achille Tenkiang·October 27, 2024

How Israel, France, and the US shape the Anglophone Crisis. Read More...

Best of 2024: Essays Cameroon October/November 2024

A Medical Miracle in Cameroon

Beng Emmanuel·July 11, 2024

The rollout of the new malaria vaccine in Cameroon has made some Cameroonians hopeful, while others worry about its true purpose. Read More...

Cameroon June/July 2024

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

Patrice Nganang·June 21, 2024

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.’ Read More...

Best of 2024: First Draft Cameroon First Draft Interviews June/July 2024 vol8-no3

‘A Symbol of Hope’ 120 Years After It Was Stolen, Germany Is Returning Ngonnso’ to Cameroon

Tomisin Awosika·July 5, 2022

The Ngonnso’ statue is a female goddess statue that was stolen from the ancient Nso’ Kingdom in northwestern Cameroon. Read more. Read More...

Best of 2022 Cameroon June/July 2022 News

Gender, Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism The Anti-Colonial Legacies of African Women

Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo·September 8, 2021

That women’s participation in anti-colonial and nationalist struggles may not be as obvious in existing literature does not mean such participation was peripheral. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Cameroon Ethiopia International Women's Day - Essays Kenya Nigeria South Africa vol5-no3 Zimbabwe

Username
Password

	Remember Me Lost your password?

Cameroon

republicjournal