Dzekashu MacViban

Yaoundé/Cameroon — Writer & Journalist

Dzekashu MacViban is a writer, journalist and editor based in Yaoundé. In 2011, he published a collection of poems titled Scions of the Malcontent and founded Bakwa Magazine. After a one year gig at the Ann Arbor Review of Books, he subsequently wrote for Goethe.de/kamerun, The Africa Report, This is Africa and IDG Connect. In 2016, he was a writer-in-residence at the Ebedi International Writers Residency. His fiction has appeared in Wasafiri, Kwani?, Jungle Jim. He was formerly Editorial Manager at This is Africa. At Membrane, he is guest editor of Schlosspost.

Articles with and by Dzekashu MacViban:

Interview

In Praise of Disruption

by Kangsen Feka Wakai with Dzekashu MacViban

A conversation with the founding editor of Bakwa Magazine—created to amplify new writing from Cameroon and from the African diaspora.

Editorial

Membrane – Boundary & Connectedness

by Schlosspost

A membrane is employed as a boundary-object and as a site of connectedness. Looking at this dual character of the membrane, the discussion in this issue is about flows, exchange, permeability, and translations, as well as about restraint, rejections, and protected areas.

Interview

Reclaiming African Identities

with Japhet Miagotar by Dzekashu MacViban

Cameroonian cartoonist Japhet Miagotar talks about North-South relations, and describes his work as a reflection of social behavior, shaped by personal history, ideologies, studies, and African statuary.