Years after his death, we revisit Bate Besong’s legacy by republishing one of his most in-depth interviews
Anglophone Cameroon Literature at Crossroads: An Interview with Bate Besong Read More »
Is Forkeh the new face of Cameroon’s polyglot rap scene?
The Polyglot Rapper Read More »
We trace our ancestry and the circumstances leading to the creation of Bakwa Magazine
A Brief History of Bakwa Magazine Read More »
A call to look back at history, recognise the loopholes, celebrate the beauty of culture, and map out a way forward to use the country’s multiculturalism and bilingualism as assets to conquer the world.
Call for Submissions: Poems on the Anglophone Problem Read More »
The Bakwa Magazine Reading Series is a public quarterly event which brings together a wide selection of writers, translators, editors and poets, and connects them to various local communities through events hosted in different cities.
Bakwa Magazine Reading Series No. 2 Read More »
Photo Credit (All Pictures): Nchanji Melvin Yesterday evening, at the Goethe-institut Kamerun, Bakwa Magazine organised a double event. The award ceremony for the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition and the first edition of the Bakwa Magazine Reading Series, a quarterly event which hosts a wide selection of writers, translators, editors and poets, and connects them
Bakwa Short Story Prize Award Ceremony/Reading Series [Pictures] Read More »
Edwige-Renée Dro Ahead of tomorrow’s release of the shortlist for our short story competition, one of the judges, Edwige-Renée Dro, shares her thoughts on the stories and Cameroonian writing. Cliquez ici pour lire la version en français When Dzekashu MacViban, the Founding Editor of Bakwa magazine contacted me to be one of
Judging the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition Read More »
On 29 October, we organised a creative writing workshop in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Kamerun in which we mentored young Cameroonian writers who write in English and French. This is the first in a series of workshops on writing, journalism, translation and technology which Bakwa magazine plans to organise. You can watch the video below.
[Video] Creative Writing Workshop Read More »
Reniss’ musical range in Tendon spans diverse genres such as RnB, Bend Skin, Bikutsi, Makossa, folk music dancehall, afropop and gospel, a gumbo of sounds described by her label as Mboko Pop.
Reniss’ Genre Fluidity in Tendon Read More »
Who is Imbolo Mbue? What does it mean to write a million-dollar novel? Nkiacha Atemkeng explores these questions and reviews “Emke“, Imbolo Mbue’s first published story. When I first heard that a US-based writer from Cameroon, Imbolo Mbue, had signed a whooping book deal of one million dollars for her manuscript, The Longings of
Imbolo Mbue: Cameroon’s literary gem and Africa’s first million-dollar novelist Read More »
