Your madness, not mine
Subtitle: stories of Cameroon
By: by Makuchi ; with an introduction by Eloise A. Brière.
Contributors: Ohio University. Center for International Studies.
Series: Monographs in international studies.; no. 70
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Cameroon -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxiv).
Table of contents: title: The healer; title: Your madness, not mine; title: Market scene; title: The forest will claim you too; title: Election fever; title: American lottery; title: Accidents are a sideshow; title: Bayam-sellam; title: Slow poison.