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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. The author retells the stories she heard while growing up in her native Cameroon.
3) Lumberjacked
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In Cameroon, the largest exporter of African wood to Asia and Europe, illegal and unregulated logging by foreign companies is posing a real threat to the country's most valuable economic and ecological resource.
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Winner of UNESCO's Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this breakthrough novel draws on Liking's personal experience coming-of-age in Cameroon, West Africa, in the late 1950s, caught between tradition and modernity, family and the nationalist independence movement. Growing up in an extended tribal community, Halla is close with her powerful father, and she follows him when he leaves, even though he rapes her, and she gives birth to his baby. Later,...
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Or "Coming out of the Closet" as it means in Cameroon, is a criminal offence for the country''s homosexuals. But Alice, a bold and intrepid lawyer, is standing alone against a wall of vitriol to defend them. Rejected by their families and imprisoned by their government, the brave individuals that Alice defends can only lead half lives in their own country. This heartbreaking documentary exposes their desperate plight and search for acceptance.
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"Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation state." "The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day to...
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In late 2013, a Franco-Cameroonian team discovered a painkiller, which man has claimed to have invented, but exists in a natural state in a common African tree, the African peach. Bernard Fontanille travels to a village of the Tikar people. Traditional healer Gaston Amoa knows the African peach well, and calls it the "Ntwo'o." For the Tikars and their neighbors the Pygmies, the plant is critical and its numerous properties help them get through their...
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In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the "time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world's own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums into the...
15) Cameroon
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This documentary studies the cultural landscape of Cameroon through the lens of that country's television programming. TV shows include ... The Good News, News Reports, Star-Crossed Destinies, Polygamous Household, Music Videos, My Favorite Song.
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Award-winning filmmaker Phil Agland returns to the African rainforest to find the pygmy family who captivated viewers around the world as the stars of his acclaimed documentary Baka: People of the Rainforest. Twenty-five years on, Agland is back in Cameroon to chart the experiences of the Baka family's next generation. Discovering that pressures beyond their forest world are irrevocably changing their centuries-old way of life, Agland witnesses the...
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2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni's temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future--until Jende and Neni notice cracks...
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