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The following work examines how the vast narrative production of the Hispanic-Cameroonian author, Inongo-vi-Makom, contributes to contemporary Spanish literature in a critical way. Even though his writing has been defined as literature from the margin, I claim that it should be instead considered as part of the national canon, given that it dives into the most current topics in the Spanish literature imaginary:social realism and immigration novel.In the last ten years, critics have started to develop an interest for African diaspora literary expression from European countries. Despite the poor combination of little visibility of these authors production and scarce distribution of the works, there has been a wide interest in studying narratives produced by African and Afro-descendant writers. This has generated a new critical literary angle for Afro-European literature (Brancato, Afro-Europe).Through the analysis of three novels by Inongo-vi-Makom, (Rebelda, Mamenying! y Cuando el cielo y la tierra se confabulan), and the consideration of various of his essays, this study draws a philosophical, topical, narrative, and ontological portrait of his literary work. By identifying notions of Africanness, otherness, endoracism, orality, essentialism and cosmopolitanism (Kwame Anthony Appiah), I demonstrate how Inongo-vi-Makom follows in the footsteps of the Ngritude literary tradition (Aime Csaire), how his narrative questions the Western ideological discourse as much as the African one, and how his writing leads to a greater grasp of African diasporic identities within and outside of Spain.