Until recently the Cameroonian short story in English has often interested itself directly with postcolonial Cameroonian society. But things are changing, and as this anthology will hopefully demonstrate, many of the themes explored in the short stories are not directly linked to a sense of postcoloniality, but reach beyond that experience and into the lives of ordinary Cameroonians today. The stories do reveal the past that Cameroon has known, whether it is through the code-switching or the variety of language used or the themes that, when unravelled, lead back in some way to a legacy of...
Until recently the Cameroonian short story in English has often interested itself directly with postcolonial Cameroonian society. But things are chang...