A Brief History of Bakwa Magazine
We trace our ancestry and the circumstances leading to the creation of Bakwa Magazine
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Kangsen Feka Wakai
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The Afro-Anarchist’s Guide to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
Kangsen Feka Wakai 1. You’ve recently resigned yourself to the fact that at a certain point in a rapper’s career, usually when he/she is already steering the yacht of mainstream success after having surmounted the crab-infested grime of the underground, they must decide whether or not to submit to the allure of pop-cultural relevance, or
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From Scions of the Malcontent to Men of Contentment
Wirndzerem G. Barfee A work of art is, and can be, read from multiple perspectives. One of the most engaging perspectives to read Macviban’s collection, Scions of the Malcontent (SOTM), is by collapsing the opposition between the verbal and graphic articulations, and as such creating a complimentary dynamics that participates in the
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Jovi: A New Chapter in Cameroonian Hiphop
Last year, the Cameroonian hip-hop scene took a major step in consolidating its place in the African hip-hop world with MuMak’s release of Jovi’s self-produced debut album, H.I.V (Humanity Is Vanishing). Before Jovi’s emergence, no solo Cameroonian hip-hop act, especially one rapping predominantly in pidgin (Cameroonian Creole), had penetrated the global hip-hop world, or had
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Anglophone Cameroon Literature: the Travails of a Minority Literature
[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
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Petit Pays: Nudity and the King
Petit Pays owned the nineties. And if he didn’t own the entire decade, then he owned the most significant part of it. And if he didn’t own the airwaves, he certainly owned sidewalk speakers and dance floors. The ‘matinee’ generation would come of age dancing to the sounds of ‘Nioxxer’, ‘Maria’ and ‘Polissy’. If Lapiro
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