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Cameroon Books
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Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,776 ratings — published 2016
How Beautiful We Were (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,063 ratings — published 2021
Houseboy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,365 ratings — published 1956
Les impatientes (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,170 ratings — published 2017
The Poor Christ of Bomba (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.75 — 341 ratings — published 1956
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.79 — 601 ratings — published 2021
La Saison de l'ombre (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.95 — 655 ratings — published 2013
These Letters End in Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,215 ratings — published 2024
Mission to Kala (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.79 — 344 ratings — published 1957
A Long Way from Douala (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.31 — 255 ratings — published 2018
The Old Man and the Medal (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.61 — 465 ratings — published 1956
Days Come and Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.09 — 371 ratings — published 2019
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Volume 70) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
by (shelved 12 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.73 — 73 ratings — published 1996
A Zoo in My Luggage (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,402 ratings — published 1960
Cameroon with Egbert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.93 — 168 ratings — published 1989
The Blunder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.53 — 242 ratings — published 2020
Mount Pleasant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.17 — 161 ratings — published 2011
When the Plums Are Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.89 — 88 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,603 ratings — published 1983
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.57 — 310 ratings — published 1999
The Bafut Beagles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,054 ratings — published 1954
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016 ratings — published 2016
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.29 — 354 ratings — published
Crépuscule du tourment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.09 — 246 ratings — published 2016
The Amputated Memory (Women Writing Africa)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.60 — 45 ratings — published 2004
The Informationist (Vanessa Michael Munroe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,468 ratings — published 2011
Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)
by (shelved 5 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.65 — 86 ratings — published 2001
Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published 2018
A Plague of Caterpillars (The Innocent Anthropologist #2)
by (shelved 5 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.99 — 339 ratings — published 1986
Prisoner Without a Crime: Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 2.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005
Your Name Shall Be Tanga (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.55 — 69 ratings — published 1988
Travels in West Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.76 — 917 ratings — published 1897
The Overloaded Ark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,441 ratings — published 1953
The Fortune-Tellers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.08 — 809 ratings — published 1992
Les Honneurs perdus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.38 — 71 ratings — published 1996
The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2007
L'intérieur de la nuit (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.82 — 153 ratings — published 2005
Cœur du Sahel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,245 ratings — published
A Trail of Crab Tracks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.76 — 37 ratings — published
Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.21 — 173 ratings — published 2000
The Market Bowl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.77 — 197 ratings — published 2013
The Journey's End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
La guerre du Cameroun. L’invention de la Françafrique (1948-1971)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.28 — 68 ratings — published
On the Postcolony (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.09 — 355 ratings — published 2001
The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,625 ratings — published 1996
The Last Great Ape: A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.59 — 135 ratings — published 2012
The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.34 — 130 ratings — published 1987
Cruel City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.78 — 107 ratings — published 1983
The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (Volume 86) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.77 — 26 ratings — published 2007
“Non-violent resistance supposes that the almighty enemy, at the very least, considers you to be a human being, capable of logically arguing why you disagree.
It supposes that this enemy is ready to hear your demands and find common ground. Yes, Bamileke maquisards took up arms! But did they have a choice? Colonial masters feigned departure, but their cruel puppets continue to safeguard their interests through murder. We were cheated.
Our struggle has been used to different ends. And, you will see, they will chop off any head that stands out, and then falsify our history. In fact, they won't; they will not even bother to record our history."
"Who is "they?" I asked.
"This 'they' is 'we’,” replied Louis. "We are the ones killing ourselves. Our killers are encouraged, trained, and funded by the former colonial power. But, and this is what makes it worse, we ourselves are the ones doing the dirty work with senseless enthusiasm," he added.
That was how Cameroon—not just myself as an individual, or my village, Ombessa, or Bafia and Yaounde, the places where I had lived, but also this multi-layered, nuanced, bruised entity called my country—took shape in my mind.”
― Days Come and Go
It supposes that this enemy is ready to hear your demands and find common ground. Yes, Bamileke maquisards took up arms! But did they have a choice? Colonial masters feigned departure, but their cruel puppets continue to safeguard their interests through murder. We were cheated.
Our struggle has been used to different ends. And, you will see, they will chop off any head that stands out, and then falsify our history. In fact, they won't; they will not even bother to record our history."
"Who is "they?" I asked.
"This 'they' is 'we’,” replied Louis. "We are the ones killing ourselves. Our killers are encouraged, trained, and funded by the former colonial power. But, and this is what makes it worse, we ourselves are the ones doing the dirty work with senseless enthusiasm," he added.
That was how Cameroon—not just myself as an individual, or my village, Ombessa, or Bafia and Yaounde, the places where I had lived, but also this multi-layered, nuanced, bruised entity called my country—took shape in my mind.”
― Days Come and Go
“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.”
― The Undercover Economist
― The Undercover Economist
