The Radio and Other Stories

by Gil Ndi-Shang

On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the
narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new
neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as
allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery
of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a
social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey
in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated
with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home,
nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture,
showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and
icons in specific communities.

£17.00 – £18.00

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About the author

Gil Ndi-Shang

Gil Ndi-Shang (Romance Literatures/Comparative Studies, University of
Bayreuth) holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Bayreuth
International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). He is a
member of the Young Colleague Programme, Bavarian Academy of Sciences
(Munich-Germany). In the recent past, he has been Research Fellow with
the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
for his literary research in Congo, Peru and Colombia. He hails from the
North-West region of Cameroon where he grew up before moving to Yaoundé
and Bayreuth (Germany) for his university education. He is the author
of State/society: Narrating Transformations in African Novels and
co-editor of Tracks and Traces of Violence and Re-writing Pasts,
Imagining Futures. He is also a contributing co-editor of the poetry
volume Emerging Voices: Anthology of Young Anglophone Cameroon Poets.