Nkiacha Atemnkeng is a writer from Cameroon. His work was published in the 2015 Caine Prize anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, the 2019 Short Story Day Africa Hotel Africa anthology, Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon by Bakwa Books, the Limbe to Lagos nonfiction anthology, as well as The Africa Report, This Is Africa, The Guardian Longread, Longreads, Porter House Review, the Johannesburg Review of Books, among others. He is a Goethe Institut/Sylt writing residency winner, and a 2021 Art Omi fellow. Nkiacha Atemnkeng earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University, where he is currently teaching as a faculty member.
Content by Nkiacha Atemnkeng
Reviews,
Schadenfreude: A Review of Trevor Noah’s Loud and Clear Tour
It is like Noah carefully picked up most of the cues of the human condition, at every single rung of his ladder-rise to fame and whipped all of that into his game.
Interviews,
On Roving, Writing, Reading, Teaching, and Navigating Worlds: Nkiacha Atemnkeng Interviews Téa Obreht
Wandering appeals to me enormously. I find it to be regenerative and creatively enriching. Like everything, however, it has its downsides. Belonging somewhere takes time. Forming a community takes time. Wandering can make you an outsider to certain kinds of knowledge—which can be tricky for writing. A lot of my work tends to focus on displaced people, or passers-through, people trying to make sense of settings to which they are fundamentally outsiders, and I suspect this is tied to my own experience of the world.
Reviews,
The Sound of The Lion King
The opening song, “Circle Of Life,” spread its unique mood to the entire The Lion King soundtrack, which became a childhood anthem for a generation of millennials. It was that authentic African voice, and that harmonious act by the South African choir and Carmen Twillie, that grabbed the audience’s attention. Their innovative performance evokes such deep emotion that it is clear why The Lion King has one of the most memorable opening scenes in animated cinema.