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Read this one for work book club.
This one was pretty great. I loved the subtle (and I suppose at times really not so subtle) satire of colonialism, and written from the view of the colonized rather than the colonizer. So it was the perfect way to get at the absurdity of whit colonists in Africa in the behavior and thought processes. And, it still expertly shows that in Africa the colonized understood the mindset of the colonizer much better than could ever happen the other way around. I mean, as ...more
This one was pretty great. I loved the subtle (and I suppose at times really not so subtle) satire of colonialism, and written from the view of the colonized rather than the colonizer. So it was the perfect way to get at the absurdity of whit colonists in Africa in the behavior and thought processes. And, it still expertly shows that in Africa the colonized understood the mindset of the colonizer much better than could ever happen the other way around. I mean, as ...more
Simultaneously a light-hearted and harrowing read, this is a tale of the ultimate sorrow of indigenous peoples’ experience of colonialism in postmodern Cameroon through the particular life of Toundi, a Christianized (“more or less” in his own words, p. 56) houseboy whose position in a wealthy Commandant’s home becomes precarious as he unwillingly lurches into the role of a key witness to marital indiscretions.
Bathed in the waters of valued ancestral wisdom, animism, overt sexuality, and superb ...more
Bathed in the waters of valued ancestral wisdom, animism, overt sexuality, and superb ...more
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