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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 075411967X

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.

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

1996 0435909509 Paperback