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The African

Mongo Beti
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Region

Central Africa

Cameroon

Era

Post-colonial

Language

French

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Fiction

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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.

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Part of Beti's devastating portrait of neo-colonialism in Cameroon and across Africa

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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. Part of Beti's devastating portrait of neo-colonialism in Cameroon and across Africa

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