Patrice Nganang is Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University. Dog Days, the second in a trilogy of novels on urban Cameroon, was recognized with both the Marguerite Yourcenar prize and the Grand Prix de la Litterature de l'Afrique Noire. Amy Baram Reid is Associate Professor of French at New College of Florida.

An amazing representation of African modernity. With its unique style, language, and rich creativity, this book indicates how Africans are struggling to culturally and symbolically appropriate the colonial heritage. - Ambroise Kom, College of the Holy Cross, editor in chief of Presence Francophone ""Is there a better weapon than irony to get a taste of the African born of military dictators and absolute poverty?.... The Cameroonian novelist Alain Patrice. Nganang tells the story of this Africa, where reality seems stranger than fiction."" - Le monde des livres

Patrice Nganang is Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University. Dog Days, the second in a trilogy of novels on urban Cameroon, was recognized with both the Marguerite Yourcenar prize and the Grand Prix de la Litterature de l'Afrique Noire. Amy Baram Reid is Associate Professor of French at New College of Florida.

An amazing representation of African modernity. With its unique style, language, and rich creativity, this book indicates how Africans are struggling to culturally and symbolically appropriate the colonial heritage. - Ambroise Kom, College of the Holy Cross, editor in chief of Presence Francophone ""Is there a better weapon than irony to get a taste of the African born of military dictators and absolute poverty?.... The Cameroonian novelist Alain Patrice. Nganang tells the story of this Africa, where reality seems stranger than fiction."" - Le monde des livres

Patrice Nganang is Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University. Dog Days, the second in a trilogy of novels on urban Cameroon, was recognized with both the Marguerite Yourcenar prize and the Grand Prix de la Litterature de l'Afrique Noire. Amy Baram Reid is Associate Professor of French at New College of Florida.

An amazing representation of African modernity. With its unique style, language, and rich creativity, this book indicates how Africans are struggling to culturally and symbolically appropriate the colonial heritage. - Ambroise Kom, College of the Holy Cross, editor in chief of Presence Francophone ""Is there a better weapon than irony to get a taste of the African born of military dictators and absolute poverty?.... The Cameroonian novelist Alain Patrice. Nganang tells the story of this Africa, where reality seems stranger than fiction."" - Le monde des livres