The Tragedy of Mr No Balance

The Tragedy of Mr No Balance
Author: Victor Elame Musinga
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9956558982

This play is a must watch for anyone who is frustrated because of corruption and hopeless about its eradication.

Anglophone-Cameroon Literature

Anglophone-Cameroon Literature
Author: Emmanuel Fru Doh
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739192736

Against a disturbing political backdrop and through an in-depth appraisal of selected illustrative texts from major genres—poetry, prose, and drama—Emmanuel Fru Doh presents the origins and growth of a young but potent literature. To him, Anglophone-Cameroon literature is a weapon in the hands of an oppressed English speaking minority in his native Cameroon, Africa, who were unfairly manipulated by the United Nations and Britain into a skewed federation in the name of an independence deal.

Reading Contemporary African Literature

Reading Contemporary African Literature
Author: Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401209375

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

The Barn

The Barn
Author: Victor Elame Musinga
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2008
Genre: Cameroon drama
ISBN: 9956558974

"In these plays [the author] explores the virtues of being human, while simultaneously inviting all and sundry to crusade against the dark side of humanity. 'Njema' captures the predicament of love in a context where innocence and trust are preyed upon by deceit, dishonesty, promiscuity, waywardness, callous indifference to human life, the reckless abandon of parental authority and wisdom by youth in a hurry to celebrate sexuality, irresponsible manhood with or without the connivance of girls/women, and HIV/AIDS and its terror. 'Invitation to God' addresses elitism and fair-weather friendship even among believers. In 'Moka', the theme of friendship is explored through the simple act of dishonesty and greed, especially to those with whom one should be nothing but virtuous, open, generous and kind." -- Back cover.

Legal Oppositional Narrative

Legal Oppositional Narrative
Author: Stephen L. Bishop
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780739113189

The book investigates opposition to the Cameroonian social and legal order through prose and theatre that employs legal themes, settings, and language as well as actual legal decisions. The conclusion is that opposition though ironic appropriation of legal discourse is more promising in fostering social justice than direct resistance to the legal hierarchy.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2713
Release: 2004-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134468474

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures

Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures
Author: C. C. Barfoot
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789051833652

All The Essays In This Anthology Reflect The Growing Importance Of Literature And Cultures That Might Once Have Been Regarded As Marginal. This Book Affirms The Importance And Interest Of A Wide Variety Of Literatures Sharing A Language But Reflecting A Rich And Provocative Diversity Of Histories, Experiences And Attitudes To The Shared World Which Still Divides Us. Couple Of The Essays Look Into The Work Of Anita Desai And Salman Rushdie.

No Love Lost

No Love Lost
Author: Wuteh Vakunta
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9956716731

No Love Lost is a tale of troubled times in which the storyteller strives to return to wholesomeness a society whose values have jumped the rail. Set in the 'No Man's Land' of Ongola, the novel unravels the corruption and influence-peddling endemic in this African country. Framed around the travails of an unemployed university graduate, the story is the gripping depiction of one man's vendetta against a society at odds with itself. Among others, the novel explores the themes of identity crisis, political gerrymandering, individual and collective greed, love and marriage, and class exploitation to weave an enduring tapestry of great human interest. Written against the backdrop of nascent neo-colonialism No Love Lost combines the traditional and the modern; the private and the public to demonstrate that the quest for truth and justice behooves all and sundry. The author infuses the narrative with oral traditions to capture the reader's attention in a compelling style. This is a refreshing work by a writer whose heart throbs for his people and their plight.

No Way to Die

No Way to Die
Author: Linus Asong
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9956716146

What happens when a young man of talent and visions of greatness falls victim to a cruel set of circumstances over which he has no control? No Way to Die is such a story. Dennis Nunqam Ndendemajem gives up! Even when he is given a second chance to start again, he refuses to gather the broken pieces of his life together. He refuses to rebuild, and refuses to live. But he also finds no way to die.

Status, Functions, and Prospects of Pidgin English

Status, Functions, and Prospects of Pidgin English
Author: Anne Schröder
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003
Genre: Cameroon
ISBN: 9783823358213

"[A]ll interview transcriptions and almost 150 tables with calculations from the quantitative survey are made available on the accompanying CD-ROM."--Page 4 of cover.