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.