Research Interests

Postcolonial literatures, critical theory, African theatre/drama/performance, theatre for development, people’s film for development and the representations of old age in African literatures.

Selected Publications

• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2022. Political practice and irate satire in Cameroonian drama: A cross-language exploration of What God has Put Asunder by Victor Epie’Ngome and La chèvre du sous-préfet by Charles Soh. In Gehrmann, Susanne and Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds). Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies. Trier: WVT Verlag, 121-140.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe and Susanne Gehrmann (eds.).  2022. Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies.  Trier: WVT Verlag.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2022.  Theatre and representation: A critical understanding of gender from an intercultural perspective. African Performance Review 13 (1&2): 37-54.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. (ed.) 2021. Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2021. Introduction. Old age in African literature and African sociocultural contexts. In Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe (ed.) Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-14.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe and Nepomuk Riva. 2021. Performing cultural (un-) sustainability: The impact of an applied theatre workshop on a West African Graduate School Programme. In Shippers, Huib et al (eds.) Applied Ethnomusicology: Practices, Policies and Challenge. Beijing: Central Conservatory of Music Press, 153-166.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2021.Ageism is still ‘another form of bigotry’: Physical presentation of the elderly body in Anowa and The Gods are Not to Blame. In Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe (ed.) Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 35-56.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2021. Interrogating respect towards the elderly during an Applied Theatre Workshop at Agyati in Bafut, Cameroon. In Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe (ed.) Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 99-108.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2021. ‘Transgressing’ wisdom and elderhood in times of war? The shifting identity of the elderly queen in the performance of Women of Owu. In Anne Kohl (ed.), Under Construction: Performing Critical Identity. Basel: MDPI Books, 85-106.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2020. Agony on stage: The intrigues of building houses in The Rubble Rouser performed at the 58^th Edition of the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (KSCDF). In Gehrmann, Susanne, Obala Musumba, James Ogone and Oduor Obura (eds.). Eastern African Literatures and Cultures: Emerging Trends. Glienicke: Galda Verlag, 247-263.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2020. From the village square to the theatre hall: Reflecting on the shifting grounds of People Theatre in a postcolonial context. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 31 (3): 149-167.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2020. Patronage or negotiation? An exploration of the performances of The Boomerang and Pamela's Journal. Matatu 51 (1): 118-138.
• Elisabeth Reitinger, Ulrike Vedder and Pepetual Mforbe Chaingong (eds). 2018. Alter und Geschlecht: Soziale Verhältnisse und Kulturelle Repräsentationen. Wiesbaden: Springer.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2018. A critical analysis of the role of Aberewa (Old Woman) in Bill Marshall’s Asana. In Elisabeth Reitinger, Ulrike Vedder and Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds.), Alter und Geschlecht: Soziale Verhältnis und Kulturelle Repräsentationen. Wiesbaden: Springer, 143-152.
• Chiangong, Pepetual Mforbe. 2011. Rituals in Cameroon Drama: A Semiological Interpretation of the plays of Gilbert Doho, Bole Butake and Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Series.

Summary of research topic in the CL&CK project

Literary Politics and Identity Construction in Colonial Letters

In this project, I intend to explore the literary components constructed in the language  of colonial correspondences  in early 20^th century-British Southern Cameroons. First of all, the  research identifies these literary aspects and debates on how they underscore the narratological quality of the letters. Emphasis will be placed on how this quality affects the intended message  conveyed in the context of interlocution. Further, the identified literary elements are analysed to critically centralise the  intersectionality of power, gender, class, race and age, in a bid to find out how they have enabled a construction of the shifting identities of  indigenous people, politics and culture in British Southern Cameroons. Importantly, interest will be placed on how the geo-political mobility of the correspondences, perhaps, generates a critical site for anti-colonial nationalist thoughts that might have prepared  Southern Cameroons for sovereignty.