Ferdinand Oyono

Houseboy

Novella depicting daily humiliations of a houseboy serving a French colonial administrator in Cameroon

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Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Oyono

Cameroonian novelist whose Houseboy and The Old Man and the Medal are biting satirical portraits of colonialism told from the perspective of the colonized. His black irony influenced a generation of African writers.

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