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Award-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time. In a small village called Bomba in Cameroon, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task, to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marri...

Mongo Beti (1932-2001), born in Cameroon, is considered one of the foremost African writers of the independence generation. His novels available in English include King Lazarus, Mission to Kala, and The Poor Christ of Bomba (named one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century).Pim Higginson is Associate Professor of French at Bryn Mawr College.

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, MongoBeti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fiercecriticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmentalcorruption.Translated here as "The Story of theMadman, " the novel gives the English-speaking world Beti's comicsatire of the fictional Chief Zoa teleu and his favorite sons Zoa toa and Narcisse.In a modern fable that Beti uses to ...

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, MongoBeti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fiercecriticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmentalcorruption.Translated here as "The Story of theMadman, " the novel gives the English-speaking world Beti's comicsatire of the fictional Chief Zoa teleu and his favorite sons Zoa toa and Narcisse.In a modern fable that Beti uses to ...

Mission to Kala (Mission terminée) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon. It won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1958. It describes the visit of a young Yaounde-educated man to a village in the interior. Jean-Marie Medza, the narrator, has just failed his Baccalauréat exam, and returns home expecting humiliation. Instead, he finds that as a scholar his prestige is immense, and he is charged with the duty of travelling to Kala, a rem...