An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own. A young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words – Who is the Prisoner? This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. When the plums are ripe by Patrice Nganang (August 2019)Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang writes in the second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II. He recounts the story of Cameroon’s forced entry into World War II, and in the process complicates our own understanding of that globe-spanning conflict.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 08, 2019 15:00 UTC