I’m Kangsen “Yassay” Masango and I am a writer, thinker, and son of Africa. My work is a conversation between memory and the present, a dialogue with the ghosts of my ancestors and the pulse of a continent still defining itself.

My book, Your Name Is My Name, began as a personal reckoning, an attempt to understand how Cameroon’s revolution in the 60s affected members of my family. In the end, it became a meditation on guilt, loyalty, and nationhood, an allegorical indictment that is a love letter to the nation known as “Africa in miniature.” It also explores the costs of alienation, and how language can both wound and heal. Ultimately, it is a story about the courage to live by one’s truth.

This space is where I gather the fragments, the stories, reflections, and questions, that shape who I am and what I write.

Welcome to the dialogue.