The MMG Salon

Featuring essays and articles from our editorial board

The depth, scope and capacity of the human heart are quite literally unsearchable. Nonetheless, we never cease to ponder them, to question them, to attempt to analyze them.

In this fortuitous first assignment of the editorial board, Missang Oyongha delivers an inspiring, if brief, critique of the preface to Camilla; Or A Picture Of Youth by Frances Burney.

View Article

Regarding Camilla by Missang Oyongha

Public intellectual, private hunter of game, bibliophile, oenophile, humanist, dramatist, poet, provocateur, paterfamilias: Wole Soyinka has always seemed to inhabit, simultaneously, an endless array of nouns.

View Article

Ex Soyinka Semper Aliquid Novi by Missang Oyongha

Trinidadian by accident of birth, Indian by family tree, English by choice of domicile, V. S. Naipaul was a Darwinian by instinct. He was much taken with beginnings, origin stories, first causes that explained the individual.

View Article

The Long Afterlife of Naipaul’s Biswas by Missang Oyongha