Tale
Les Contes et légendes du Bamiléké
Not translated into English
Martin Sop Nkamgang · 1970
Synopsis
A collection in several volumes of tales and legends of the Bamileke of western Cameroon, published in French by its author, in Yaoundé. The second volume, which appeared in 1969, opens with a preface and brings together stories such as “Une marâtre” or “Kamgu la courte fille ou La princesse des Buissons”; the first, revised in 1970, contains the fable of the toad and the chameleon.
Context
The collection comprises at least two volumes, published in Yaoundé by the author himself: the second dates from 1969, and the first went into a second, revised and improved edition in 1970. The Bibliothèque nationale de France does not hold it, but does hold other books by Sop Nkamgang, including the proverbs he compiled with Patrice Kayo. The historian Zacharie Saha, of the University of Dschang, cites one of its fables in his study of the representations of space in Bamileke cosmogonies. A digitised copy belongs to Indiana University.
Who it is for
In French, short tales, each readable on its own. It is worth knowing that the Bamileke live on the western highlands of the country.
Prizes and reception
No prize found, and no reissue after 1970 in the catalogues consulted.
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