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The Six Most-Read Stories on Bakwa Magazine in 2016

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Reviews dominate this year’s most-read stories on Bakwa magazine. When our readers aren’t reading reviews, they are reading about the Anglophone Problem in Cameroon. The recent protests in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon, resulting from a language crisis (which was highlighted in several stories submitted for our short story competition), show the politricks of bilingualism […]

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Akua Naru’s Poetic Discourse on Love and Black Suffering

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Why does Akua Naru accept Africa’s music and spirituality, and neglect its people’s voice in her poems? The 1997 film Love Jones features a scene in a dark jazz club at an open mic night where a young black man, Darius, performs an erotic spoken word poem dedicated to his love interest Nina. He references

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[Short Review] Fatoumata Diawara Channels the Innocence and Power that History Associates with her Name

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Serubiri Moses ‘Fatou’ is the short form for Fatoumata or Fatouma where I come from. Her name alone has a long history within Islamic cultures: a city was named Fatimah in Portugal during the Moorish period; Fatimah is the name of the beloved daughter of Prophet Muhammad, whose husband, Ali, did not marry again until

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The Aesthetics of Lugaflow Subculture and (Inter)National Representation

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Serubiri Moses Can Lugaflow represent Uganda nationally or internationally in the same way Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart represents Nigeria nationally and internationally? “I’m just trying to shape my own destiny, I’m trying to be my own Museveni.” – Karama – Noonya (I’m Searching)   Rappers, as authors of rap lyrics and performers of rap

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BrymO’s Lagosian fiction in Merchants, Dealers & Slaves

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Serubiri Moses [Music Review] Reading BrymO’s Lagosian fiction in Merchants, Dealers & Slaves Serubiri Moses Merchants, Dealers & Slaves evokes the confident move of the artist defining their own journey as a songwriter and performer. This is what one gathers even without knowing who BrymO is, indeed, even prior to their knowledge of Naija pop.

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