“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in by Koagne. Le king kept snapshots of himself with many a man of power, among them Mobutu Sese Seko and Denis Sassou Nguesso […] He took Mobutu for 15 million dollars. Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso lost 40 million to him. Sassou, Etienne Eyadéma of Togo, several high officials of Gabon, Tanzania and Kenya, a member of the Spanish government and an ex-operative of the Israeli Mossad were bamboozled as well.” – Dominique Malaquais (Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle).
Bantu Serenade by Ntone Edjabe (featuring Nah-ee-lah) (read excerpt)
Santu Mofokeng: Trajectory of a street photographer (part1) (read excerpt)
Binyavanga Wainaina: Hell In Bed With Mrs Peprah (read excerpt)
Dominique Malaquais: Lindela (the winnie suite) (read excerpt)
Boubacar Boris Diop: Myriem (read excerpt)
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La sphère de Planck by Lionel Manga ( Ròt-Bò-Krik , 2022)
That evening in Kribi, a Cameroonian seaside resort, a high dignitary of the regime inaugurated his new villa.
The story of the event is written like a fractal: a multiplicity of characters meet there and tell each other. In the middle of them, A55, freshly returned to the country after thirty years spent in France. sent on an economic analysis mission, observes the political and social decline of contemporary Cameroon.
Through streams of thoughts from the various protagonists, it is the very history of the country since independence that emerges. An immense and complex world in reduction, which does not hold any more but by words, resulting from a library as scientific as poetic.