Three Ladies with a Precious Stone
About the author.
Nange Lisette Malung was born in 1990 in the Littoral Region of Cameroon. She holds a Master's Degree in Arts, and currently pursues a PhD in the Art of Playwriting. She is the founder and president of the Visionary Theatre Troupe-VTT. With her team, they have produced many theatre performances across the national territory and has been recognized as one of the young prominent theatre practitioners in Cameroon.
They have won competitions organized by notable cultural institutions like the Cameroon French Institute, the Goethe Institute and the Ministry of Arts and Culture. Nange has written and directed over 10 Plays and 5 tales. As an uprising young writer, her short story “Aku a Mifi ” made her to emerge laureate for the National Writing Competition for Young Authors in 2018 in Cameroon organized by the Ministry of Arts and Culture. As a Screenwriter, she wrote two screenplays for the short films: Street Tiger and Identity (2021) that was produced by Les Films Terre Africain and sponsored by UNICEF.
She participated as an actress at the International Islamic Cooperation 2019 in Egypt. She is also a filmmaker and emerged winner for the Best Short Film Award at the Red Feathers Awards, 2017 with the film My Core Indubitably. The film was further screened on October 29th, 2018 at the 3rd Afro-China Arts and Folklore festival held in Egypt. She has also produced a documentary training video at Atok for an Indian based Power Transmission Line company-KALPATARU. She is currently a storyteller at eBASE Africa and works at the Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Book category: Drama
Number of pages: 75
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN: 978-9956-30-728-9
Three Ladies facing problems of spinsterhood, barrenness and body odour; suffer a common stigma of regression, violence and assault in an impatient society. The story projects African women as the gender that will go to the wildest forest in search of solutions to their problems. The problems faced by the ladies constitute a metaphor for the plight of Africans and a reminder that, solutions are possible if they recognise their cultural identities, ancestral practices and values.

