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
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
La Saison de l'ombre
These Letters End in Tears
A Long Way from Douala
Mission to Kala
The Old Man and the Medal
Days Come and Go
A Zoo in My Luggage
The Blunder
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Volume 70) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyAlif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 17 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters

Nobody's Children by WD OliveWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreAnywhen by Beth DukeMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightApi's Berlin Diaries by Gabrielle Robinson
War History Non Fiction
12 books — 9 voters
Song of the Butterflies by R.M. LeslieNot Just Yet. Egypt 2011 by Mohamed Abdel-MaksoudLife and Death in Nyamata by Omar NdizeyeMinna, Saturday by Chizzy Ndukwe N.Life in Woke America by Joel Rakow
Best Debut Short Stories From Africa!
11 books — 18 voters


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

Tim Harford
We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else. ...more
Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist

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