December 2021 will mark Bakwa Magazine’s tenth anniversary. From inception in 2011 to currently being at the forefront of African literary culture, our journey is a remarkable one. Created as a response to the dearth of critical and creative writing in English in Cameroon—which dearth turned into gaping void with the discontinuation of similar, preceding
Bakwa at 10: Celebrating a Decade of Disruption Read More »
We trace our ancestry and the circumstances leading to the creation of Bakwa Magazine
A Brief History of Bakwa Magazine Read More »
Illustration Credit: Dante Besong 2015 has been a busy and experimental year for us at Bakwa and we’re very thankful to the interns, editors and contributors who’ve worked very hard to make sure we produce the kind of quality articles we uphold. We continue to value our readers and are very concerned with what they
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[Part 1] Oscar C. Labang For a very long time now, I have struggled with inner pressures not to join in this theoretical quibbling about Anglophone Cameroon Literature and just content my soul in a quiet corner and make my modest contributions (whatsoever) to projecting it to the heights that it deserves. I have tried
Anglophone Cameroon Literature: the Travails of a Minority Literature Read More »
submissions are currently OPEN We accept unpublished fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, cartoons etc. Submissions must be sent as an attachment including a short biography and picture if available. We accept submissions in English, French & Pidgin English and pay a token fee of USD 60 for each accepted piece. Fiction: should be 3,000 words
