The young Kulu Ybaning, a twenty-six-year-old graduate with a BSc in chemistry, unemployed full-time, and more commonly known as Champion, flew his white flag. Then, blood slowly began to drip from his ears, mouth, and nose. As passers-by yelled and rushed over, the young man stayed unmoving, his eyes wide open. This time, God was distracted, as He had been since the morning of that Wednesday in April. He had crashed through the old, wooden wall, propelled like one of Van Helsing’s arrows by the collision with another motorcycle taxi. But some fifty metres farther, he found himself lying motionless in a stranger’s living room, having entered not through the door or window. Barely fifty metres in, he turned to acrobatics to dodge a motorcycle taxi. Champion had already vanished into Obili’s ghetto. ‘Sir, your money! Sir …’ The driver yelled in vain after looking left and right. Taking off like Usain Bolt, Champion set off on the tortuous two-hundred-metre path that separates the pavement from his home in the swamp at the bottom of the hill. Of Passion and Ink, which is the debut publication from Bakwa Books, will be published in May 2019.īam! The back door of the taxi slammed shut. The excerpt is taken from a short story by A Bouna Guazong, translated from the French by Hannah Jakobsen.
Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon
The JRB presents an excerpt from Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon, a collection of short stories forthcoming from Bakwa Books.
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