Published 27 January 2026 in Insights
African Books Collective
Blood Orange Gospel By Moshumee T. Dewoo
African Books Collective - Literature - Poetry
Published by Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Moshumee Dewoo’s Blood Orange Gospel is the raw, unapologetic psalm of a woman negotiating the ruins and rituals of her own survival in a world where she was never granted permission to take up space. Nothing here is polite. Nothing is healed. Nothing asks to be loved.
Moshumee T. Dewoo l Blood Orange Gospel l 2026 l 38 Page Paperback l Dimensions: 20,3 × 12,7cm l ISBN: 9789956004348
“Dewoo’s Blood Orange Gospel follows a self ‘raised quiet’, an ‘origami of no excess.’ Moving from bleeding only ‘between the lines’ to the ‘cracking’ of breakthrough, these poems show a woman ‘surviving herself without permission’. In this ‘bone-deep’ collection, fire is where the ‘winged self’ finally emerges’.” Ncebakazi Makwetu, African woman poet and scholar, and researcher, South Africa.
“Dewoo’s Blood Orange Gospel unsermonizingly captures a world where women subsist on literal and figurative femicide, choosing between failed revolution and ‘shabby deals’. It demands a ‘pluriverse’ gender equality through resistance, insisting the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.” Hassan M. Yosimbom-Author of Yearning for (Dis)Connections: Fictions and Frictions of Coexistence in Postcolonial Cameroon (2023).
About the author
Moshumee T. Dewoo is a Mauritian scholar specialising in emancipation within African societies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawing from her cultural and academic background, Dewoo’s poetry explores themes of incompleteness, liquidness, belonging, and human sentiment to challenge established narratives and foster critical reflection on the modern African human experience.
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