Pages: 58

Year: 2020

Category: Drama, Literature

Dimensions: 280 x 216mm

ISBN:
Shipping class: POD

Because of my Mouth

A Play

Nchuyekeh is a vivacious and inquisitive adolescent girl who finds
a freshly cut head on her way to the farm. Convinced that the head
responded to her question, she abandons her original mission and
resolves to report her peculiar encounter directly to the chief, despite
her mother’s protests. Would the talking head vindicate and save her
from the dreadful sentence that awaits her at the chief’s palace? Would
such punishment, if meted be commensurate with her offence? Find out
Nchuyekeh’s fate in this short play that promises to entertain while
raising vexing but pertinent questions about the fate of the modern
African adolescent.

£16.00

About the author

John Fokwang

John Koyela Fokwang was born in Bali Nyonga in the then British Southern
Cameroons. He attended the Native Authority School in Bali where he
later taught as a Probationary Teacher (1963-1965). John Fokwang
continued his professional training and enrichment in 1965 and obtained
his Teacher’s Grade III, II and I in 1968, 1970 and 1975 respectively.
He completed his studies for the ACP in 1980 and became a Senior Grade I
teacher in 1981. In the summer of 1987, John Fokwang completed studies
towards a diploma in Project Management at the University of Guelph,
Ontario, Canada. Always animated by the quest to enrich his professional
and personal life, he trained and obtained a certificate in General
Agriculture from INADES Formation Cameroon in 1998. He was a founding
member of the Association for Creative Teaching (ACT) and the Kaberry
Research Centre, Bamenda. He has edited many children’s and teachers’
literary works such as The Lion and the Monkey and The Busy Spider and
Other Poems.
He is also the author of the bestselling A Dictionary of
Popular Bali Names, 3rd edition
(2010).