 Your
Madness, Not Mine : Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi,
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Women's writing
in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers.
The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and
vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian
and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status
her people occupy within the nation state. The stories in Your
Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially
about Cameroonian women, who probe their day to day experiences
of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression
from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment,
unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians.
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