Central Africa
Cameroon
Contemporary
French
Fiction
A sweeping political novel set in colonial Cameroon, following generations united by the memory of the assassinated independence leader Ruben Um Nyobe, as they resist the collusion between France and the new African elite.
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Beti's most ambitious political novel; a tribute to the martyred anti-colonial hero Um Nyobe
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editorial-summarynot primary textA sweeping political novel set in colonial Cameroon, following generations united by the memory of the assassinated independence leader Ruben Um Nyobe, as they resist the collusion between France and the new African elite. Beti's most ambitious political novel; a tribute to the martyred anti-colonial hero Um Nyobe
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