Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the early discovery that in Cameroon there is no conscience that money cannot buy, this illegal alien, travelling under three criminal identities, builds up a great amount of wealth. But he cannot buy the entire police force. 224pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Novel set against the backdrop of prison life, which explores the complex reality of being African in today's world. Through its two principal characters, themselves victims of misplaced justice, greed and lust, it captures the pain and sadness that almost always comes in the wake of betrayal and egotism. 112pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Set in a kleptomaniac and highly corrupt imaginary African country, Ewawa, where financial institutions collapse and salaries plummet. Professor Esole and his wife are not only aggrieved by the salary slashes, but also by the dubious closure of the Post Office Savings Bank with their savings. Desperate for money, they resort to borrowing from private sources at exorbitant interest rates. Esole stumbles into politics with the aim of righting things. Will his naïve approach to politics make or mar? 192pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Collection of three topical plays. 'Njema' captures the predicament of love in a context where innocence and trust are preyed upon by deceit, dishonesty, promiscuity, waywardness, callous indifference to human life, the reckless abandon of parental authority and wisdom by youth in a hurry to celebrate sexuality, irresponsible manhood with or without the connivance of girls/women, and HIV/AIDS and its terror. 'Invitation to God' addresses elitism and fair-weather friendship even among believers. In 'Moka', the theme of friendship is explored through the simple act of dishonesty and greed, especially to those with whom one should be nothing but virtuous, open, generous and kind. 48pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Poetry that examines Cameroon’s diverse cultures as remarkable centres of moral rectitude and, simultaneously, sickening vicious-circles of bribery and corruption. 86pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of people. 76pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Fictional autobiography of a President-Monarch who does not want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. A tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the way 'Mandzah' and, by extension, many other leaders across the Continent, have mismanaged their roles. 208pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Efenze, the President of the Board of Directors of government companies and a member of the Central Committee of the Ruling Party, eliminates his erstwhile business contractor, Sancheu, with the complicity of the latter’s wife. His aim is to inherit Sancheu’s widow and wealth and to forge his way into the Political Bureau of the Party. A dramatization of evil in its multifaceted dimensions including treachery, infidelity, greed, hypocrisy, double-crossing and vaulting ambition in a postcolonial society where those who wield political and financial power thrive or perish by their involvement in obscure schemes. 68pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The story of Achu, a young boy who loses his mother when he is still a baby. He is raised by his father in a household teeming with wives and children. Then the father dies and the task of raising Achu devolves on his aunt, his fathers sister, who is married to one of the richest and most powerful men in the country. But the aunt is jealous because Achu is doing better in school than her own children. 200pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Akendong II has 14 children, all girls, and is saddened by the fact that he has no chopchair, a male heir to his throne. Then news comes to him that his favourite wife has given birth to a pair of twins, boys. He is even more angered by the fact that he has two heirs, a source of trouble for his kingdom. To avoid his wrath, his councillors change the story, sending away one of the boys to grow in hiding. Learning of the truth about his birth 15 years afterwards, the prince in hiding returns, kidnaps the palace prince and demands his full share of the kingdom. His will is done, but at a very great cost to the chiefs peace of mind and relationship with his people. 100pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Folktales from Cameroon in which Beme, a strange hero who imitates others, and begins to create a human portrait through his multiple disguises. 231pp, IN FRENCH, FRANCE. KARTHALA.

Play that tackles the ethically complex issue of Christian fundamentalism. It deals with the conflicting imperatives in contemporary West Africa, which push ordinary people into extraordinary situations. 76pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Chief Nchindia held the Elders of his Council in total contempt, inwardly vowing to disagree with them at every point where disagreement was possible. What starts as a joke, develops into tragedy: the statue of the god of Nkokonoko Small Monje is discovered stolen and sold to a white man. Tradition demands instant execution of the culprits. Was their Chief involved in the theft? Which is worse, the crime or the punishment? 242pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Eight short stories on themes as diverse as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West. 160pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Examines the socio-political, economic and moral life of a rich and resourceful fictional country called Ewawa from 1982 to 2007. The country had been ruled by a dynamic and insightful miser known as the Old Man. But because he had been in power for too long, his citizens longed for change. It happened when nobody expected it. The Old Man died suddenly in his sleep and was replaced by his handpicked successor. Unfortunately, the successor whom everybody had expected would do better plunged the country into terrible economic and moral crises. Lucia, the protagonist, narrates her predicament. To her, Ewawa is completely rotten and there is nowhere to turn for salvation. The custodians of the economic, social, moral and spiritual values of the land are not up to the task. The country is without hope. Is all doomed? 111pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh’s protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980s Britain. By casting aside his disillusion and the traps of servitude and victimhood, the novel reveals his creative potential for curiosity and adventure, a view of the cultural idiosyncrasies of the new world he encounters, which throws his own African culture, politics and socio-economic realities into light relief. 264pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Dr. Frederick Ngenito shocks his entire community by marrying a girl whose earlier rejection of him had cost him an enviable job. But this is nothing compared to the ire of the ancestors when he hides the facts surrounding his fathers suicide and he is buried without the traditional cleansing, and which reduces him to a wreck. 190pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Explores the legacies of two men in the village of Nwemba. Winjala the Crude, yardman to the English surveyor Pete Harrington, kills the latter's favourite animal, a monkey, and flees to his home village. Sama Gakoh, washerman to Harrington, also returns home when he is dismissed for being too old. Both have strong views on their former employer and, when they die shortly after their return their sons sustain the conflict. 172pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Play about greed and its consequences. Set in the traditional African village of Ntisong, Sunyin, the young wife of Dohbani embodies all that is wrong with coerced marriages. A group of blood thirsty vampires, the Nda Saah superstitiously kill targeted individuals purposely to enrich themselves. Sunyin, suffers from premature widowhood because her father forced her into marrying Dohbani. 60pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Stories of human triumph over adversity coming out of Africa, Asia and America. Gideon's personal journey and his account of his mother and uncle in this book exemplify what it means to be truly resilient. A self-help book that draws on the wisdom of his native Cameroon to tell a universal story. 76pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The few nights and days of the title covers a crisis in the lives of four friends - students living and working in Paris. 184 pp. UK. African Writers Series

1970 Paperback

With a curmudgeonly stepmother who harasses her even as she spoils her own biological daughter, Mungeu, the protagonist, blazes a path for herself in the face of many odds. But things go terribly wrong when she falls pregnant. The dilemma of whether or not to keep the baby, given society’s expectations, flings this young woman into direct confrontation with a life that is beyond her years. 209pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Historical fiction. Martin Paul Samba, whose adopted German student home does not consider him material for a son-in-law, champions the cause of the exploited, pitting Kamerunian nationalism against German colonialism before and after the First World War. 160pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Anthology of animal trickster tales, bird survival tales, and human-interest stories. The compen-dium is a reflection of the mores, cultures, and value systems of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Province of Cameroon and is born out of Vakunta’s keen interest in the preservation of Cameroonian oral traditions in written form. 104pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The poet dispels a number of myths, notably the existence of an inexhaustible bank of natural resources at the disposal of Man. He attempts to provide a solution to the abusive and unbalanced utilization of scarce natural resources. In a unique way, the poems contribute to the fostering of environmental awareness that would contribute to the sustainable management of natural resources. 80pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Play depicting the wanton destruction of water catchments in most communities in Cameroon. This is inextricably linked to the traditional practice of shifting cultivation, motivated largely by farmers struggle to acquire more arable farmland to meet the needs of their rapidly growing families. The immediate consequence is acute water shortages, with obvious health and economic implications. Agro-forestry and other soil management techniques are subtly proposed as practical measures to effectively address the issue of shifting cultivation and the associated problem of encroachment into the delicate water catchments. 84pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Written in the form of a diary kept by the Cameroonian houseboy Toundi, who is fascinated and awed by the white world, the world of his masters. His intense study of the world he love begins to reveal its cruel realities, leading to tragic consequences. Translated from the French by John Reed. 122pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Story of a young woman with quixotic ideas about improving the lot of women who finds out that the crusader's cloak is an uncomfortable one. Martha Elive, armed with a university education and a substantial legacy from a Dutchwoman she meets while studying abroad on a scholarship, decides to create an institute for the empowerment of women, only to find that the contradictions to be resolved are more firmly anchored in her psyche than elsewhere. In addition to her unexorcised ghosts and the legacies of a chequered love life, she has to contend with recalcitrant public opinion and moral inertia, the opposition of old-guard reactionaries, and the incomprehension of her small-town parents. 328pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Chronicles a migrant workers experiences on a colonial plantation in West Africa. Martin Tebi cannot wait to board a truck to the south where he hopes to become a pioneer at a newly established oil palm plantation, but soon realises that becoming a Big man in a new environment would not be as easy as he had thought. Set in the South West Region of Cameroon near the Bakassi region, this story is told in Pidgin and English. 182pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Growing up parallel to an independent Cameroon, Tipoung'he takes a long time to realise that he has all along been living in the shadow of his country with its tainted ideals of the Nation and the Patriot. The moment of his withdrawal from all of this, which coincides with self-knowledge, is a personal and symbolic rebirth. 320pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fiancé refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to keep them in their employ. Resolved to make her disappointments blessings, she perseveres until she can take no more. A darkly humorous commentary on what it means to be known and unknown in contemporary South Africa. 334pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Poems which bemoan the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfellows; a world wherein miscreants proceed with nauseating impunity to trample on innocence. 124pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Collection of poems which tackles social evils as parasites while cross-examining cultural assumptions in the same vein. 104pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

When the admirable Kevin Beckongncho becomes the new Paramount Chief of the much-coveted throne of Nkokonoko Small Monje as well as its new DO, Chieftaincy could finally be said to have been redeemed. But he quickly becomes a marked man, as he runs into fatal collision with an unscrupulous governmental system with which he cannot co-exist. 258pp, CAMEROON . LANGAA RPCIG.

New poetry from the Cameroonian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. 68pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A collection of short stories culled form the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka, a small village with a population of approximately 6,500 located in the grasslands of the Northwest Province in the Republic of Cameroon. 49pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Explores intersections between sex, money and power, challenging orthodoxies, revealing complexities and providing insights into the politics and economics of relationships. During six months of fieldwork in Mimboland, Lilly Loveless, a Muzungulander doctoral student in Social Geography, researches how sex shapes and is shaped by power and consumerism in Africa. The bulk of her research takes place on the outskirts of the University of Mimbo, an institution where nothing is what it seems. 376pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Attempts to expose, through the feelings and thoughts of one man and a very simple story, the hypocrisy and corruption of Cameroon society. The novel depicts a society where basic freedoms are shackled, and thinking aloud treasonable. It traces the progress of the narrator, Judascious Fanda Yanda, from a disenchanted Damné de la Terre to a comfortably well off Private Secretary to a Vice Minister over a number of years. 232pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The trials and tribulations of a failed scholar. Medza has acquired status by going away to college, now on his return, to a village in the southern Cameroons, much is expected of him. Can he live up to and fit in with others expectations? translated from the French, 185pp, UK. AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1964 0435900137 Paperback

L'auteur reproduit la vie dans un certain ordre harmonique enveloppée de rêves soigneusement triés et équilibrés. Observateur attentif de sa société dont il décrit avec une attachante passion les grands mouvements qui donnent à l'existence une réelle densité, Emmanuel Matateyou dans ce cocktail de poèmes exquis promène le lecteur à travers la société africaine où l'Harmat-tan, ce vent d'Est, détruit en balayant à son passage les laideurs, les vicissitudes et les déchirements pour laisser la place à une quête enivrante du nouveau. IN FRENCH. 52pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Chaos reigned in the firmament, until the ageless spirit Ovase Lova breathed and created dawn. Stars from his fingertips jewelled the heavens and newborn planets radiated throughout the vast universe. The river gods now dispatch Namondo, a liengu-la-nwanja or water spirit, to the land. The child of the water spirits, alongside her twin brother, has come to purge the land of an evil cult. Namondo uses her magic ring to accomplish her task, but disaster strikes. The fearsome ring of the water spirits must return to her son. Ntemfac Ofege weaves a tale combining yesterday and today, the living dead and the living, tradition and modernity, scoundrel and righteous deities. Gloss, 349pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Set in Ongola, this novel unravels the corruption and influence-peddling endemic in this fictional African country. Framed around the travails of an unemployed university graduate, the story is the gripping depiction of one mans vendetta against a society at odds with itself. Among others, the novel explores the themes of identity crisis, political gerrymandering, individual and collective greed, love and marriage, and class exploitation. 132pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Relives the tumultuous beginnings of Africa’s democratisation experiment in the early 1990s. The main theme of the collection is an investment in hope and in the resilience of Cameroonians. 59pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

What happens when a young man of talent and visions of greatness falls victim to a cruel set of circumstances over which he has no control? Dennis Nunqam Ndendemajem gives up and even when he is given a chance to start again, he refuses to gather the broken pieces of his life together. He refuses to rebuild, and refuses to live, but he also finds no way to die. 246pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Didactic poem in which Doh, muses on the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a tribute to his alma mater along with the distinguished faculty and student body that gave Ibadan its reputation during his days there as a student. 60pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A novel that explores the problems of Christianity in Africa, with the ambiguous legacy of the missionary movement and the fear of a God who is not black. French text. 349pp, FRANCE. PRESENCE AFRICAINE.

New fiction. Madam Essin stood watching the young people holding each other. She looked at the young man who was her son. How handsome he looked. When he smiled he had that elusive curve on his lips that reminded her of her husband. She had been unable to resist that curve of the lips even after eight years of marriage. When her husband smiled she had the feeling he was looking down on her in amused condescension. This used to annoy her but she could not resist the charm he exuded. Now here she was an abandoned wife with an estranged son. Her thoughts roved as she watched them, plunging into the past, the present and the future. The girl brought back the past. She wished she could obliterate that past from her life and her sons. 186pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Twelve-year-old Bridget and her friends are excited when they get admitted into one of the most prestigious boarding secondary schools in Kumba, Cameroon. Passing exams is the least of their worries: surviving the attentions of hormone-driven adolescent boys and unscrupulous senior students are their biggest challenges. 112pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Story of a young man from Cameroon who tries hard to reconcile the ways he had grown up with, and those he experiences in Britain. Dion Ekpochaba, a postgraduate student at the University of Warwick, loses an amulet, a cherished heritage of his ancestry. He meets an elderly Englishman, who reveals the amulet had just been desecrated by his dog and thrown into the depths of a lake in the campus. The two strangers attempt to understand each other to no avail. However, the misfortunes of time bring them together in friendship, where they learn mutual understanding and respect for each others ways. 117pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Centres on a war that Nso fought with Bamoun in the 1880s, and which war resulted in a devastating defeat for the Bamouns. During this war, a major Nso combat rule was broken: the Sultan (king) of Bamoun was decapitated. Both local story tellers and historians have indicated that the Sultan was only supposed to be captured alive. The play explores some very compelling reasons for this violation. 112pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The collection of thirty-three folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he does not open the sacred door. 176pp, USA. OHIO U P.

Dennis Nunqam Ndendemajem, the spectral social misfit of NO WAY TO DIE, having failed to commity suicide, is pursued by the hatred of friends and family relations. He seeks refuge in The Salvation Colony of the Angels of Limbo Church of Africa. He loses himself, but finds God. 216pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

New novel from Cameroon about a love triangle, that unravels the secrets of the human heart. 208pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Debut collection of poems from a Cameroonian academic. 52pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Collection of short reflective stories that highlight the predicament of a people and exposes the ills of a society where neglect and decay are the nauseating lure and allure of everyday life. 132pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Lucas Achamba undertakes to unite Dudum clan which politicking and egotism have split. His quick success stirs bitter rivalry and heartless cruelty that decide his fate. 290pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Novel about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. The filth and screaming splendour of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition and modernity are lived and explored. 360pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Twelve short stories about childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon. 141pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

English translation of Beti's tenth novel, originally published in French in 1994. Essentially a modern fable that illustrates the problems of a people's disintegrating values in a postcolonial state. An afterword includes an interview with the author. 190pp, USA/UK. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS.

This anthology aims to awaken the conscience of a society in lethargy, one in which even those who lay claim to superiority display gross incompetence in the management of state and societal affairs. 88pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Nineteen year old Ateba lives in a slum neighbourhood in Awu. Her emotional and psychological experiences as a woman in a West African ghetto deconstructs the idealised image of African women produced by Negritude authors. 120pp, UK. AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES..

1995 0435909517 Paperback

The village of Yakiri has been cursed by ancestral wrath because of the treatment of Yaa, the first girl who wrestled her male goatherd peers to earn the right to be initiated into the society of manhood. Her struggle is taken up generations later by Yaya, the granddaughter of Tafan and Wirba. Orphaned like her forebear, Yaya becomes a star student in the villages primary school and promises to go far. But, ask the villagers, is it right to invest in an education for an African girl who may become the property of another village? 332 pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Bate Besong was a vocal and controversial Cameroonian poet, playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a snapshot of the mood that prevailed after his death. Bate Besong ushered in a new kind of nationalist fighting literature in Cameroon, unapologetic in its defence of Cameroon’s Anglophone minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African dictators and their foreign collaborators. 76pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Explores the unprecedented political upheaval of the 1992 first ever-multiparty presidential elections in Cameroon. Following the controversial elections, Bamenda - the stronghold of the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF) - was plunged into a tense and intense civil disobedience campaign. The violence which ensued pitted SDF militants who claimed their victory was stolen against regime loyalists. The government reacted by imposing a curfew on Bamenda. The army that was dispatched to keep the peace committed ferocious kidnapping, rape, theft and torture, driving women, children and men into the arms of terror. Titabet the protagonist emerges as the leader of the oppressed. He and the sacred women’s cult of Takumbeng were the only hope for the people. 42pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Play examining the depth of corruption throughout Cameroon. The illiterate Bih exposes Mr. No Balance's corrupt practices and demonstrates that the downtrodden of the society can contribute to the fight against corruption. 47pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Dieudonne's life is spun from the threads of one of Africa’s grand moral dilemmas, in which personal responsibility is intertwined with the social catharsis occasioned by ambitions of dominance and ever diminishing circles. We encounter Dieudonne at the tail end of his service as houseboy to the Toubaabys, a patronising expatriate couple. In the company of a lively assortment of characters and luring music at the Grand Canari Bar, Dieudonne recounts his life. As he peels layer after layer of his vicissitudes, he depicts the everyday resilience of the African on a continent caught in the web of predatory forces. Yet, this enchanting failure also celebrates the infinite capacity of the African to find happiness and challenge victimhood. 164pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

Gavin Nemafou Njike is the main character in this novel concerning political and social unrest in a fictional African country in which assassinations, coups, and tribal domination create an unstable government ripe to be overthrown by the rising tide of opposition. As a double agent for both the only legal party and the opposition, he becomes embroiled in dangerous intrigue. Gloss, 216pp, UK. JANVIER CHANDO TCHOUTTEH.

2002 075411967X Paperback

Brings together THE BITE, THINGS FALL IN PLACE, THE WILL AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF SENDE GHANDI, written between 1995 and 2006. 184pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Poems that ridicule as much as they pay tribute to his country, filled with a sense of Cameroon's gradual, downward spiral into anomy. 64pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Six stories, set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon, exploring themes of women’s liberation, corruption, poverty, alcoholism, endurance and love .112pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Eight short stories depicting the joys and pains of everyday life in Cameroon and in the wider African diaspora. 152pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A disturbing story about sexual abuse and violence in a West African prison. 137pp, UK. AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1996 0435909509 Paperback