Houseboy Publisher: Heinemann

by Ferdinand Oyono

Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for irony that shows how easily people can be fooled. Beginning in the 1960s, he had a long career of service as a diplomat and as a minister in the government, ultimately serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1997 and then as Minister of State for Culture from 1997 to 2007.

Oyono's novels were written in French in the late 1950s and were only translated into English a decade or two afterward.