Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi Makuchi

Biography

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi was born in 1958 in the Southwest Province of Cameroon and raised in Northwest Province. A writer and critic, she is the author of Our Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (1999), The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (2008), among others. Her work explores African stereotypes and gender inequalities grounded in cultural and political contexts, as well as a critique of the postcolonial Cameroonian identity. She received her bachelor's in Bilingual Letters, English & French and master's in African literature from the University of Yaoundé. She also holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, after which she immigrated to the United States. From 2012-2018, she served on the Executive Council of the African Literature Association (ALA). She is a Distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of English at North Carolina State University.

Birth Date

1958-01-01

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

Cameroon

Languages Spoken

English, French, Beba

McGill University, University of Yaoundé, University of Yaoundé, University of Yaoundé, University of Yaoundé

Sources

“Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.” College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NC State University, https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/jmphd/. Accessed 23 May 2022.

“Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.” Feminist Archives, https://feministarchives.isiswomen.org/categories/author/166-juliana-makuchi-nfah-abbenyi. Accessed 23 May 2022.

“Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_Makuchi_Nfah-Abbenyi. Accessed 16 November 2024.

Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi. “Am I Anglophone? Identity Politics and Postcolonial Trauma in Cameroon at War.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 14, no. 2, 2020, pp. 180–197, https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1717120. Accessed 23 May 2022.

“Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike with Prof. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi.” Africa in Words, 10 September 2020, https://africainwords.com/2020/09/10/qa-uchechukwu-peter-umuezirke-interviews-with-prof-juliana-makuchi-nfah-abbenyi/. Accessed 23 May 2022.