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The Spoken Word Scene in Cameroon: From Poetry to Poetography

By Dzekashu MacViban - 1 Comment - 14 October 2013 - 7 minutes of reading

A shorter version of this article was originally commissioned by the Goethe-Institut and published on www.goethe.de Dzekashu MacViban Black Alice. Photo Credit: Black Alice For many years, spoken word in Cameroon was like the anecdotal man with the iron mask— faceless and denied recognition as it played second fiddle to other forms of art […]

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The Spoken Word Project – Stories travelling through Africa

“Oral narratives are an essential part of constructing identities in this part of the world. It is important to enable people to keep up access to their history. “ Lebogang Mashile, South-African poet Stories are created by being told. In telling narratives, stories are invented, passed on, changed and adapted. They wander through the world,

The Spoken Word Scene in Cameroon: From Poetry to Poetography

The Spoken Word Project – Stories travelling through Africa

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