MacViban told Maximus about Bakwa’s programmes for new writers. In MacViban’s house, they discussed the novel and the African literary scene, the motivating publishing, the intriguing politics, the hilarious drama. Following a working-class Cameroonian couple in New York City during the financial crisis of 2008, the book is a wider critique of the American Dream, what it means for hopeful immigrants, especially when African and Black. He was a new writer, in town for a workshop facilitated by MacViban as founding editor of Bakwa, a literary and arts magazine and the sole Anglophone publication in the mostly Francophone country.Įarlier in the year, their compatriot Imbolo Mbue, a previously unknown from Limbe who shot to literary fame in late 2014 after a $1 million advance for her debut manuscript, had published her novel, Behold the Dreamers, to acclaim. Howard Meh-Buh Maximus first met Dzekashu MacViban five years ago, on a slow June evening in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon.
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