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TaleLes Fables de DoualaIsaac Moumé Etia · 1930not translated into EnglishDouala around 1930, where a writer and linguist sets down in writing what was told in his community.Literature
NovelNnanga KonJean-Louis Njemba Medou · 1932not translated into EnglishThe arrival of the first white missionary in Bulu country, told from the side of those who took him for a revenant.Literature
PoetryFleurs de latériteFrançois Sengat-Kuo · 1954not translated into EnglishPoems of anger by a Cameroonian student in Paris, in the time of the anticolonial struggle.Literature
PoetryLes Rêveries tumultueusesLouis-Marie Pouka · 1954not translated into EnglishThe book of an assimilationist poet returned from France, at the moment when his self-assurance begins to crack.Literature
NovelHouseboyUne vie de boyFerdinand Oyono · 1956A town in colonial Cameroon seen from the pantry, by a houseboy whom the whites pay no attention to.Literature
NovelMission to KalaMission terminéeMongo Beti · 1957A schoolboy who has failed his exams among villagers of the interior, who take him for a learned man.Literature
NarrativeNgondaMarie-Claire Matip · 1958not translated into EnglishThe Bassa country of the forties and fifties, seen by an adolescent girl who moves from the village to the town school.Literature
NovelTante BellaJoseph Owono · 1959not translated into EnglishThe condition of women in Cameroon, taken as the subject of a novel on the eve of independence.Literature
PoetryKamerun! Kamerun!Élolongué Epanya Yondo · 1960not translated into EnglishCameroon sung from Paris by a militant for its independence, in the very year it was achieved.Literature
TaleÀ la belle étoileBenjamin Matip · 1962not translated into EnglishAfrican fables collected and rewritten by a Cameroonian author, two years after his country's independence.Literature
PoetryPiments sangJean-Paul Nyunaï · 1963not translated into EnglishPoems from 1953, printed in Paris ten years later.Literature
NovelCette Afrique-là!Jean Ikellé-Matiba · 1963not translated into EnglishHalf a century of Cameroonian history seen from below, from the Germans to the French, told at a evening gathering by a man who served the former.Literature
TheatreThree Suitors: One HusbandTrois prétendants… un mariGuillaume Oyônô Mbia · 1964A Bulu village in the year of independence, where the dowry for a schoolgirl is received without asking her opinion.Literature
NovelSur la terre en passantFrançois-Borgia Marie Evembé · 1966not translated into EnglishThe capital of a newly independent country, seen by a poor young man paralysed by shame.Literature
NovelAgatha Moudio's SonLe Fils d'Agatha MoudioFrancis Bebey · 1968A village on the outskirts of Douala, where the fountain spreads every piece of gossip and where the family chooses the wife.Literature
NovelEssential EncountersRencontres essentiellesThérèse Kuoh-Moukoury · 1969A Cameroonian couple endangered by the lack of a child, told by the wife herself.Literature
NovelBecause of WomenMbella Sonne Dipoko · 1969A Cameroonian village on the riverbank, its work, its intrigues and its love affairs.Literature
NovelAfrika Ba'aRémy Gilbert Medou Mvomo · 1969not translated into EnglishA village in southern Cameroon that the young people leave for the city, in the wake of independence.Literature
NovelUn sorcier blanc à ZangaliRené Philombe · 1969not translated into EnglishA missionary among the Beti in colonial times, caught between the faith he brings and the administration that governs.Literature
TaleLes Contes et légendes du BamilékéMartin Sop Nkamgang · 1970not translated into EnglishThe spoken word of Bamileke evening gatherings set down in writing in French, and published at the author's own expense.Literature
PoetryHymnes et sagessePatrice Kayo · 1970not translated into EnglishThe first book of verse by a man who devoted his work to the words of the elders of his region.Literature
PoetryLa Prophétie de JoalSamuel-Martin Eno Belinga · 1970not translated into EnglishA song of post-négritude, written by a scholar who spent his other days collecting the great sung narratives of his country.Literature
Short storiesUn enfant comme les autresPabé Mongo · 1972not translated into EnglishA village childhood told in story form, written for the children of Africa in the early seventies.Literature
PoetryLes Barbelés du matinPaul Dakeyo · 1973not translated into EnglishA book of verse written outside the country, which opens a poetry of struggle and exile.Literature
NovelL'Homme-dieu de BissoÉtienne Yanou · 1974not translated into EnglishA bush village where the old cult confronts the priest trained in Europe and the forester who has come from France.Literature
Feature filmPousse-PousseDaniel Kamwa · 1975Cameroon in the mid-seventies, where people laugh at the bride price and at those who live off it.Cinema
Feature filmMuna MotoJean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa · 1975The Cameroonian countryside of the mid-seventies, where money wins out over one's given word.Cinema
NovelThe White Man of GodKenjo Jumbam · 1980A child of Nso country caught between the Catholic mission and his grandmother's religion, in the English-speaking part of Cameroon.Literature
NovelLe Bal des caïmansYodi Karone · 1980not translated into EnglishState repression in an unnamed African country, seen from the side of those who come to testify at the trial.Literature
TheatreSambaPaul Tchakouté · 1980not translated into EnglishA tragedy of colonisation, published by a bookshop in western Cameroon.Literature
NovelLes Chauves-sourisBernard Nanga · 1980not translated into EnglishA town and a village in an African country with no name given, in the time of the elites who succeeded the colonizer.Literature
NovelLa Croix du cœurCharly-Gabriel Mbock · 1982not translated into EnglishA village divides over the religion that a stranger brings to it, in a palaver about what the Gospel becomes when it changes land.Literature
NovelIt Shall Be of Jasper and CoralElle sera de jaspe et de corailWerewere Liking · 1983A diary kept by a woman who invents the word she needs to name herself, and dreams of a humanity to come.Literature
TheatreLake GodBole Butake · 1986A village ruled by a converted Fon, caught between the Christianity of the missions and the cult of the lake.Literature
NovelThe Sun Hath Looked Upon MeC'est le soleil qui m'a brûléeCalixthe Beyala · 1987The poor districts of the big coastal city, where a young woman seeks to exist in a world governed by men.Literature
TheatreHaute trahisonRabiatou Njoya · 1990not translated into EnglishPower and its intrigues in the Bamoun kingdom, brought to the stage by a princess of the royal family.Literature
DocumentaryAsientosFrançois Woukoache · 1995Gorée, off Dakar, a major site of the Atlantic slave trade, seen from Africa in the mid-nineties.Cinema
Feature filmThe Great White Man of LambarénéLe Grand Blanc de LambarénéBassek ba Kobhio · 1995Colonial Gabon, from the forties to independence, around a hospital founded by a European admired throughout the world.Cinema
Feature filmAristotle's PlotJean-Pierre Bekolo · 1996Southern Africa, at the moment when a hundred years of cinema are being celebrated and when the continent's screens show mostly Hollywood.Cinema
Feature filmClandoJean-Marie Teno · 1996Douala in the mid-nineties, under repression, and Cologne, where Cameroonian émigrés live.Cinema