A slaughter in Kumba
What will it take for the decades-old regime of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to address the root cause of the country’s senseless conflict?
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Kangsen Feka Wakai
Kangsen Feka Wakai is a Cameroon-born, Washington DC-based writer. He is a copy editor with Africa Is a Country.
A deafening salvo
With a new book, Chimurenga resurrects Festac, the blackest and largest ever gathering of artists from Africa and its diaspora in 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria.
In the name of the king
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, and patriarchy governs the Cameroonian political landscape.
Will the colonized ever speak?
New French film on decolonization in Africa and Asia incapable of avoiding the Eurocentrism the filmmakers wanted to steer clear of.
In praise of disruption
A conversation with the founding editor of Bakwa Magazine—created to amplify new writing from Cameroon and from the African diaspora.
The Ship from Cameroon
The fate of Cameroon’s women’s national football team, like much else in the country, is a reflection of the sorry state of its politics.
Frontiers of dystopia
Cameroon claims to be a democracy. Then why are even moderates like Maurice Kamto in jail?
God don kam
Rapper Jovi has inducted himself into a club of Cameroonian artists who have embraced their own truths in the face of adversity.
Meditations on Paul Biya’s Reelection in Cameroon
The Biya regime’s grip on power has been exposed more than ever before. It is revolting to watch.
The President’s Footballers
Star players in Cameroon’s national soccer team have always doubled as PR pawns for the protracted rule of the country’s aging and hard-line head of state.
Time traveling with Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango has been here for centuries, and he ain’t goin’ away any time soon.
The Header that Rocked the World
At Italia 1990, Cameroon pulled off the greatest upsets in football in the history of the World Cup–against Maradona’s Argentina.
Cameroon on the brink
Paul Biya’s inability to address the crisis in the country’s Anglophone region is pushing the nation to the brink.
Paul Biya Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Biya did not conceive the system by which he rules Cameroon, but deserves as much credit for the modifications that have enabled his reign.
Body Politricks and the Worlds in Between
A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
The Afro-Anarchist’s Guide to Kendrick Lamar
On “To Pimp a Butterfly,” is Kendrick being ironic when he wonders “How Much a Dollar Cost”?