Voices in the Storm by Geraldine Sinyuy

Geraldine collected a series of interviews, poetry and other creative writing by internally displace people in Northwest Cameroon, where she lives. As she noted:

This work documents the experiences of the internally displaced persons in the North West region of Cameroon with an aim to cry out to the entire world to come together as one and stop wars all over the world.  In the North West Region of Cameroon, the Anglophone crisis persists, it’s been seven years now and the war goes on. It’s like a little flickering fire which won’t go off, yet the candle melts by almost unnoticed. Many have been displaced, thousands have died, countless have fled the country completely and many more are on the move.

My own mother survived by the grace of God when soldiers went burning homes and firing and the rest of her relations who had gathered in our family compound for safety escaped to the bushes for safety. Being a patient, my mum could not run with the rest of the people so she just went inside her room and locked the door and chance was on her side since that particular house was not set on fire.

See this important and rare document of an ongoing and completely forgotten war HERE.