"I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him—in his case the impover
"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from My Father, the latest nove
"This novel by the poet and writer, public intellectual and critic, Veronique Tadjo, from the Ivory Coast, illuminates both the civil strife in that country and the tension between traditional mores a
"I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him—in his case the impover
The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War IIIn Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When
