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561 works of pan-African thought. 7 matching current filters.
A satirical novel about a young educated man who returns to his village, critiquing both traditional village life and French colonial education.
A satirical novel depicting the destructive influence of French Catholic missionary activities in colonial Cameroon through the eyes of a young mission houseboy.
An epistolary novel told through diaries of a young African houseboy working for French colonials in Cameroon, exposing the hypocrisy and brutality of colonialism.
The story of an elderly African man who has lost two sons fighting for France and expects to receive a medal, satirizing colonial exploitation and false promises.
Fiery speech delivered at Congo's independence ceremony denouncing Belgian colonial brutality and asserting African dignity, shocking King Baudouin.
A factory worker is arrested and tortured by the PIDE secret police for nationalist activities. Written from prison, it tells of his wife's search through Luanda's musseques, the first great anti-colonial novel of Angolan literature.
A young Cameroonian doctor returns from France full of hope for independent Africa, only to find that the colonial structures have simply been inherited by new African elites.