Writing in Cameroon, the first hundred years.
German, French and British colonization, the advent of Christian missions, the fight for independence and the subsequent neocolonial régime, impacted greatly on the literature produced in Cameroon between 1889 and 1989. These factors determined where writers studied, the gender of those who did stud...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 51 - 66 |
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