Patrice Nganang

Alain Patrice Nganang(born 1970) is an American writer, poet and teacher of Cameroonian origin, a member of the Bamileke people. He authored the poetry collections elobi (1995) and Apologie du Vandale (2006). As a literature scholar, his research examines violence and post-colonial African literature and culture. He earned a Master's degree from the University of Yaounde in 1992. Quotes I would say the social media. It did not only change my mind completely, but it also made me become a different writer, a writer different than the one I was before, as I started writing on a laptop in 1995. Social media made me land in jail, helped me free a few hundred from jail, build schools and bridges, and feed a few incarcerated individuals. Simply put, it made me become the writer I always dreamed about. When I disagree with a book, it simply slips out of my hands. I stop reading it without even noticing it, and it slips out of my mind. As we speak, there is a genocide in Cameroon. Cameroon is supposed to be bilingual, yet our Francophone government is murdering and has murdered thousands of Anglophones. African families need family novels, Africans need diaries, badly. And since universities are places where you essentially learn archiving methods, why not apply it on yourself? Patrice Nganang talks about the most meaningful pieces of writing advice you would ever received. I think current African writers are not attuned to the shifts in grand narratives, and certainly not to the developments in theory. More and more young writers hate theory. There is so much to tell. Go out there and experience the world and write about it. I also think African writers should do more research before writing a book. External links