Spears Author

Richard C. Kumengisa was born in the Warders’ Barracks at Up-Station, Mendankwe, Bamenda. He worked with the West Cameroon Public Service and attended the Universities of Yaounde and Paris (La Sorbonne), before taking up a teaching career.

Pepertua K Nkamanyang LOLA holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

Osée Colins Koagne is a Cameroonian stage director, playwright, and environmental theatre promoter. He was born on 14 October 1973 in Bafoussam, Cameroon.

Orleans Mfune is senior Lecturer at the University of Zambia, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.

Nsah Mala is a poet, children’s author, writer, editor, translator, teacher, and literary scholar from Mbesa, Cameroon. He writes in Mbesa, English, and French.

Nnane Ntube is an award-winning poet whose poems have been performed widely across Cameroon. She is a youth leader, mentor, volunteer, performer and Youth Envoy for Peace and Democracy.

Nagwa Nukuna is a pre-Law student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majors in Economics and minors in Entrepreneurship and African Studies.

Nagella Nukuna, PhD has been cooking African meals for her family and friends for most of her life.

Michael KEHINDE holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Durham University in the UK. He was associate lecturer in African Politics at Newcastle University, UK between 2008 and 2010.

Melissa Hansen is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of the Free State (UFS) and a researcher in the Afromontane Research Unit based on the Qwaqwa campus. She obtained her PhD in Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden and an alumnus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

M.D. Mbutoh is an award-winning poet from the North West Region of Cameroon. His literary works (poetry and short stories) have appeared in journals, blogs, and newspapers across the world including Refugee Republic (2017) and Praxis, (2017) a Nigerian literary magazine.

Prof Mathew B. Gwanfogbe (1943–2024) was a distinguished Cameroonian historian and educator whose career spanned several decades of impactful scholarship and institutional leadership.