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An interesting novella which captures life under French colonial rule in Cameroon. The opening chapter finds the narrator hearing news of a man dying in a local village, when he investigates he finds the man and the narrator is by his side as he dies , it is evident the dying man has been the victim of a violent attack. When he dies the narrator is given two exercise books which make up the diary of Toundi who has been houseboy in the home of the French commandant of a Cameroon town. The rest of
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