num_pages: 160
description: Important issues of violence terrorism homosexuality and migration feature in A Long Way From Douala the first publication in English of a work by Max Lobe an important new voice in African writing.On the trail of Roger a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe Choupi the narrator takes with him the older Simon a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when at a pit stop Simon goes wandering in search of grilled caterpillars. At the police station in Yaound the local cop tells them that a feckless boza who wants to go to Europe is not worth police effort and their mother should go and pleasure the police chief if she wants help! Through a series of joyful sparky vignettes Cameroon life is revealed in all its ups and downs. Questions of life and death are raised but the tone remains light and edgy.
language: English
title: A Long Way from Douala
publisher: Small Axes