Josiane Kouagheu

Jan 17, 2025 | frontierpoetry.com | Josiane Kouagheu

By Josiane Kouagheu | January 16, 2025 Josiane Kouagheu is the undisputed master of implication. In this brief poem, she reveals a powerhouse indictment and accuses the centuries of colonialism which have led to the dominance of English as a global language—and the Western world at large, which erases and devalues all other cultures. The power of the written word is well-known, but the power of what’s between the lines isn’t always so obvious.

Nov 21, 2024 | gijn.org | Josiane Kouagheu

In September 2018, the veteran Cameroonian investigative journalist Christian Locka met Colombian journalist María Teresa Ronderos in London. They were both attending a training course on investigating illicit financial flows, held at City, University of London in Islington, just north of the Square Mile — the capital’s historic financial district.

Sep 20, 2024 | brittlepaper.com | Josiane Kouagheu

a murmur can say more than the bees’ song when your soul arrives safe at the right meeting with the memories or ready at the last feat of those who never left the scrabble of the tank at the bottom of midnight maybe sailing alone was never the goal maybe siding with them was too late because Kolofata never hid his faith neither its hate for the guns when the birds were too silent to hear their charm or too far to be on time at the morning’s room where dreams never left the burg Kolofata was...

Feb 8, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Josiane Kouagheu

Eloisa Pentecotisa was begging on the streets of Yaoundé, hearing voices and eating out of bins, when a team of health workers came across her and suggested she go with them. The 28-year-old had no idea how long she had been sleeping rough in Cameroon’s capital. But with severe mental health problems and no immediate family to take her in, she received threats, abuse and risked contracting diseases such as cholera.

Feb 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Josiane Kouagheu

Eloisa Pentecotisa was begging on the streets of Yaoundé, hearing voices and eating out of bins, when a team of health workers came across her and suggested she go with them. The 28-year-old had no idea how long she had been sleeping rough in Cameroon’s capital. But with severe mental health problems and no immediate family to take her in, she received threats, abuse and risked contracting diseases such as cholera.