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Praise For Angri 

An exciting, inspiring, and much anticipated novel

(Africa Positive Magazine, Germany)

A highly original, insightful, thought-provoking and enjoyable novel

(Prof. em. Kashim I. Tala, (Vice Chancellor American Institute of Cameroon)

Manjoh navigates Joey’s nation, laying bare the gruesome, corrupt wasteland which further deteriorates to some kind of inferno of hate and self-destruction, but with a glimpse of hope in the end for a rebirth.

(Prof. Dr. Dr. Jacob E. Mabe, (Chairman of the Anton Wilhelm Amo Society)

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of the conflicts in Cameroon today, you have to read Priscillia M. Manjoh’s Angri. It does not only provide you with an insightful analysis of contemporary politics but does so by means of dynamic and likeable characters who make sure that you will remember the novel for a long time to come.

(Dr. Anke Bartels, University of Potsdam)

Combining the homecoming from the diaspora with the national crisis, Manjoh demonstrates insight and a clear will to help resolve the current crisis in Cameroon. The colourful cabinet of characters is managed well by the author and creates a tableau of Cameroonians to illustrate the struggles and challenges of present-day Cameroon.

(Dr. Hilmar K. Heister, St. Augustine University of Tanzania)

With her second novel Angri, Priscillia M. Manjoh fashions a contemporary narrative style that, not unlike Voltaire’s satirical eighteenth-century Candide: Or Optimism, straddles tonalities of epic and realist literature—a style she calls ‘faction’, a mix of fact and fiction. Moving through the landscape of her troubled, traumatised country in Africa, the protagonist Joey Muki tries to make sense of division, disaster and atrocity, all the while working towards encouraging emerging solidarities, addressing justice and responsibility. Amidst the debris of armed insurrection, violence, and arrogance, Angri is about the will of women to act on their political cultures and social livelihoods.

(PD Dr. Norman Saadi Nikro, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)