This paper examines the challenges of mass communication faced by Cameroonian universities at the crossroads of the global lockdown due to the Corona Virus and the political crises in the North West, South-West and the Far North regions of the country. Metaphorically described as Njanga Land in Also on Campus and Symphonic Shades, Ernest Veyu, Daisy Barro and Kelvin Ngong Toh blend poetry, drama and prose in narratives that interrogate the adaptability of new information technology in university pedagogy. Hinging its argument from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, the paper hypothesises that the successful introduction of WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Online Newspaper outlets in the didactic process in universities as captured in the two texts at the time of global lockdown reveal an avant-garde style that interrogates and facilitates the teacher-student relationship which contributes enormously in conflict resolution and prevention in Njanga Land. It further argues that the bilingual nature of universities serves as a melting pot for teachers and students from multicultural origins and becomes the appropriate place through which information technology should be used to communicate, educate and encourage the political discourse of a rainbow nation that celebrates unity in diversity in times of crises. As such, Also on Campus and Symphonic Shades celebrate the success of communication in distance education through information technology and satirise its abuse or misuse in the pedagogic process and during the political crises nationally and internationally.
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