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Books
Fiction
by Imbolo Mbue
Recommended by AMEF
From Amazon: A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream – the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy
Non-Fiction
by Juliana Makuchi Nfah Abbenyi
Recommended by AMEF
From Amazon: 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.
Films
Recommended by AMEF
From Amazon: Saving Mbango is based on a Man (John) who wound up as the breadwinner of a very dysfunctional family that gets in the way of his dreams and ambitions. John falls in love with a village girl whose life complications make his look trivial. He is torn between Saving the love of his life and constantly tormented by his stern alcoholic father; irresponsible older brother; mean unmarried sisters.
From Amazon: Following one of Cameroon’s first female eco-guards, a grassroots law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist, a reformed poacher, and a Czech activist, this intimate portrait gains remarkable access to an under-reported region, the Congo basin, to understand the global poaching crisis.
