Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
£22.00
About the author
Nsah Mala is a poet and writer from Mbesa, Cameroon. He writes in
Iteanghe-a-Mbesa, English, and French. He has published five poetry
collections: Chaining Freedom, Bites of Insanity, If You Must Fall Bush,
CONSTIMOCRAZY: Malafricanising Democracy, and Les Pleurs du mal
(French). In 2016, he won the Ministry of Arts and Culture Short Story
Prize in Cameroon and le Prix Littéraire Malraux in France in 2017. As a
writer for children, his published picture books include: Andolo – the
Talented Albino (English), Andolo – l’albinos talentueux (French), and
Le petit Gabriel commence à lire (French). He translated the picture
book Be a Coronavirus Fighter (Yeehoo Press) into French as Un
Combattant du Coronavirus in March 2020. Nsah Mala’s picture book, What
the Moon Cooks, will be published in spring 2021 by POW! Kids Books
(USA).
Review
“… an unambiguous cautionary statement on the multitudinous and multifaceted hot-button politico-socio-economic issues confronting and degrading the African continent.”
Ekpe Inyang Environmentalist, Playwright & Poet
“The poems in this eclectic collection resonate with the same verve and imagistic intensity and stylistic experimentation characteristic of Nsah Mala’s poetic oeuvre.”
Gilbert Ndi Shang, PhD University of Bayreuth
“Nsah’s verses evoke a society adrift: prey to the ravages of the selfish and irresponsible actions of modern man or, better still, postmodern man. Escape does not seem to be possible, not even in foreign climes. The destruction heralded is predictably taking eschatological proportions! Is salvation envisageable?”
Yvonne Iden NGWA, PhD, Lecturer, ENS Yaoundé