Going Home

Writing a story where a character travels abroad and doesn't come back home is typical of the brain drain metaphor. But Joffi Ewusi overturns the pyramid and reviews history as Cameroon becomes a destination to be called abroad: giving an innovative voice in history. The title Going Home, therefore, offers a liberating and transformative archetype of canonical identity. It is more or less disorienting to the readers by foregrounding an interrogation of history at the level of where is home? In replacing the canonical western dreamland by contextualizing Cameroon as a destination abroad, the novel attempts to generate a history comprehensible to the postcolonial African. Ewusi's ability to deconstruct and create histories makes the novel an outstanding piece within Anglophone Cameroon writing.

Professor Nol Alembong

University of Buea

Going Home is a lifetime renaissance for the protagonist and every African youth in an epoch of cultural turn. Being flexible and resilient, she quickly adapts to the socio-cultural legacies of the Bakweri people after renegotiating and reconstructing the paradox of migrating from the States. This bildungsroman narrative is inscribed as a pseudo-autobiography in terms of cultures and setting. It is didactic and a must-read for every African youth.

Senator Daniel Matute (Ph.D.)

Ethel Joffi Molua Ewusi was born and bred in Great Soppo, a quaint village at the foot of Fako. She attended the prestigious Saker Baptist college. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Commonwealth and American Literary Studies from the University of Yaounde 1. She is the center, South and East Regional Coordinator for the Anglophone Cameroon writer's Association. She is the author of Inklings from My Ink and the award-winning novel; Christmas Carols in June. She lives in Yaounde with her husband and children.