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Cameroon Books
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Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,154 ratings — published 2016
How Beautiful We Were (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.95 — 18,858 ratings — published 2021
Houseboy (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,349 ratings — published 1956
Les impatientes (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,777 ratings — published 2017
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.79 — 597 ratings — published 2021
La Saison de l'ombre (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.95 — 647 ratings — published 2013
The Poor Christ of Bomba (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.75 — 336 ratings — published 1956
These Letters End in Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,081 ratings — published 2024
Mission to Kala (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.78 — 341 ratings — published 1957
Days Come and Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.09 — 353 ratings — published 2019
A Long Way from Douala (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.30 — 246 ratings — published 2018
The Old Man and the Medal (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.62 — 460 ratings — published 1956
A Zoo in My Luggage (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,367 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 — 241 ratings — published 2020
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Volume 70) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
by (shelved 11 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.74 — 70 ratings — published 1996
Mount Pleasant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.17 — 159 ratings — published 2011
When the Plums Are Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.88 — 86 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,529 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 — 2,045 ratings — published 1954
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,887 ratings — published 2016
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.28 — 349 ratings — published
Crépuscule du tourment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.12 — 242 ratings — published 2016
The Amputated Memory (Women Writing Africa)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.59 — 44 ratings — published 2004
The Informationist (Vanessa Michael Munroe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,455 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 3.67 — 84 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 — 338 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 3.54 — 67 ratings — published 1988
Travels in West Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.76 — 913 ratings — published 1897
The Overloaded Ark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,437 ratings — published 1953
The Fortune-Tellers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.08 — 808 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 — 152 ratings — published 2005
Cœur du Sahel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,177 ratings — published
A Trail of Crab Tracks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published
The Market Bowl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.78 — 196 ratings — published 2013
The Journey's End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
On the Postcolony (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.09 — 347 ratings — published 2001
The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,613 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 3.33 — 128 ratings — published 1987
Cruel City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.76 — 104 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
Sense Pass King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cameroon)
avg rating 4.13 — 108 ratings — published 2002
Adi of Boutanga: A Story from Cameroon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cameroon)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published
“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
“I had made an early policy decision to drink the native beer despite the undoubted horrors of the process of fabrication. On my very first visit to a Dowayo beer party, this was put severely to the test. "Will you have beer?" I was asked. "Beer is furrowed," I replied, having got the tones wrong. "He said 'yes' ", my assistant replied in a tired voice. They were amazed. No white man, at this time, had ever been known to touch beer. Seizing a calabash, they proceeded to wash it out in deference to my exotic sensibilities. They did this by offering it to a dog to lick out. Dowayo dogs are not beautiful at the best of times; this one was particularly loathsome, emaciated, open wounds on its ears where flies feasted, huge distended ticks hanging from its belly. It licked the calabash with relish. It was refilled and passed to me. Everyone regarded me, beaming expectantly. There was nothing to be done; I drained it and gasped out my enjoyment. Several more calabashes followed.”
― The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut
― The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut
