Novel
Because of Women
Mbella Sonne Dipoko · 1969
Synopsis
The novel of a womaniser and of his love for his own people, in a Cameroonian village where water is drawn from the river. It follows the ordinary life of the people, their intrigues, their affairs, their pastimes and their politics, and the way that life keeps going, obstinate and discreet.
Context
The novel was published in London in 1969 by Heinemann, in its African Writers series, in 178 pages, three years after A Few Nights and Days, and was reprinted in 1977. Its author, who was then living in Paris, had become known for a frank erotic style and for his defence of the rights of Black Africans, and he had been criticised for misogynistic views. In 1972 he also brought out, again with Heinemann, a collection of poems on love between Blacks and Whites.
Who it is for
In English, never translated into French. Better to know that its author was said to write eroticism with rare frankness.
Prizes and reception
No prize found; the Store norske leksikon regards it as its author's most important book.
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