Books set in Cameroon

Houseboy

Ferdinand Oyono

Oyono's colonial station of Dangan is invented, but he built it from the southern Cameroon he knew: the forest country around Ebolowa and the administrative reach of Yaoundé under French rule. A houseboy's diary maps that world by its divisions, the Residence and the European quarter set apart from the African quarter, the Catholic mission, the prison, and the border with Spanish Guinea where the story ends.

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