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The woman who ate python & other stories / Sammy Oke Akombi.
Van Pelt Library PR9372.9.A35 W66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akombi, Sammy Oke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cameroon--Fiction.
- Cameroon.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Woman who ate python and other stories
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2008.
- Summary:
- A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEe. The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to cook for the men of her community. The other stories tackle themes of corruption, poverty, alcoholism, endurance, love and more.
- Contents:
- The woman who ate python
- Death of the dead man
- Up from a slum
- No armour against fate
- Acquired drinking efficiency syndrome
- Tears are not forever.
- ISBN:
- 9789956558018
- 995655801X
- OCLC:
- 213449663
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