BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: ...

In Cameroon, artists are using spoken-word poetry. They are protesting the ongoing violence in English-speaking areas. Separatists are fighting government forces. The civil war has caused many deaths ...

The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, a majority of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 million since 2016. Spoken word has gained new prominence in Cameroon as poets like Alemnge, ...