The fourth issue of Palapala Magazine is now available online. This issue is rich with literary goodies - feature articles, poems, book reviews, short stories, interviews, etc., for literature enthusiasts and the general public.
Contributors include Joyce Ashuntantang who tells us of the long journey to find her voice and identity, from the foot of Mt. Fako in Buea, Cameroon, to New York; poet Viola Allo who explains in a very delightful poem why she prefers to be married to her poetry than to her suitor in Cameroon ("I do not know what it means to be a Cameroonian wife”); Tolu Ogunlesi, the man form Lagos, who writes about exile in "we will set forth at midnight; Poet Barfee Gideon Wirndzerem who gives us an insight into the future of African and Cameroonian literature in an interview with Kangsen Wakai; Chenyi Labang and Dibussi Tande who both take us on a colorful and heart wrenching poetic journey to Bonamoussadi, the infamous neighborhood on the fringes of the university of Yaounde; Benna Sayyed who writes about marching bands in historical Black colleges and universities in the United States; Dipita Kwa who concludes his story on the wages of plunder, etc.
A must-read issue indeed!
Click here to read Palapala Magazine #4.
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