This is Part 2 (Part 1) of a three-part series exploring the idea of “home” in the diaspora. These are mainly personal reflections and pieces of conversations with friends. Today’s post is about homesickness, or, as they say here in Germany, Heimweh (pronounced haim-vé). Somehow, I think the German word feels more intense, heavier, more…
This is Part 1 of a three-part series exploring the idea of “home” in the diaspora. These are mainly personal reflections and pieces of conversations with friends. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about home. Maybe it’s because of the conversations I’ve been having with my friends, all of us scattered across the world, all…
Long before debates about gender equality, polygamy, and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Kingdom of Foumbina had its own grand saga of love and power (the book). He courted her. She refused. He insisted. And she answered: “I will love you… if I am yours alone.” “But I will be king,” he said. “A king…
In the story Eyon, the Name Maker (book here), there’s a moment when the main character receives a sacred stringed instrument from the ancestors in a dream. That scene was inspired by a well known Fang-Beti legend in Cameroon. Oyono Ada Ngone and the birth of the mvet In Fang-Beti tradition, there is a legendary…
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