Fiction1960

Houseboy (Une Vie de Boy)

Ferdinand Oyono
Overview
Region

Central Africa

Cameroon

Era

Post-colonial

Language

French

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

An epistolary novel told through diaries of a young African houseboy working for French colonials in Cameroon, exposing the hypocrisy and brutality of colonialism.

Literary Significance

Powerful indictment of French colonialism in Africa

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