Let’s go a little deeper today. Let’s talk about the origin of life and water symbolism in African traditions. Let’s talk about The Source From Below, the first tale in my book Tales for the Evening. “But it doesn’t sound like a tale…” Before the book even came out, some of my friends who read…
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…
When you grow up in a Cameroonian city, traditional masks are something you don’t often come across. Maybe, hanging on a wall at an uncle’s house. In a craft shop. Behind the glass in a museum. Personally, as a child, I found them terrifying. I did everything I could to avoid looking at them for…
The Bamoun people In the heart of the western highlands of Cameroon, the Bamoun Kingdom took shape over the centuries. Founded in the 14th century, it became one of the most powerful and organized kingdoms in Central Africa. Foumban, its capital, was a center of art, politics, and spirituality. Here, symbols were never chosen at…
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