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YOUR MADNESS, NOT MINE: STORIES OF CAMEROON.

Africa Today,  June, 2000  by Ness, Robert

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Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi. 1999. YOUR MADNESS, NOT MINE: STORIES OF CAMEROON. Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series, No. 70. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.

Makuchi, the writer's pen name, is a Beba woman from the English-speaking North West Province in Cameroon. Her collection of nine short stories is a welcome addition from a new voice. We have little writing in English by Cameroon women. Male fiction writers are somewhat more numerous, but novelists, like the prolific Linus Asong and A. J. Ngongwikwo, for example, are not well known outside Cameroon. ...

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