Cameroon

Books in this genre are set in or about Cameroon.

Behold the Dreamers
How Beautiful We Were
Houseboy
Les impatientes
The Poor Christ of Bomba
These Letters End in Tears
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
La Saison de l'ombre
A Long Way from Douala
Days Come and Go
The Old Man and the Medal
Mission to Kala
The Blunder
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Volume 70) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Mount Pleasant

“ I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the world to share our affliction, but we still have the duty to honour our dead. Tina said it: all it takes is for one person, just one, to burst into grief for the others to take up the song of mourning. That is our mission. That is our duty as survivors. We are all survivors in this country, to varying degrees. To survivors, the Lord, in His languid Mercy, grants unending years ...more ”
― Hemley Boum, Days Come and Go

Léonora Miano
“ The shadow drives communities to conflict, pushes people to flee their native lands. Once time will have gone by and moons will have followed on moons, who will retain the memory of all these displacements? In Bebayedi, yet-unborn generations will learn that their ancestors had to run away to save themselves from predators. They will learn why these huts are built over streams. They will be told: Madness took hold of the world but some people refused to live in darkness. You are the descendants ...more ”
― Léonora Miano

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