Reviewed by Roos Keja (Originally published in Pambazuka News)
Recently, the Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group in Bamenda has republished Francis Nyamnjoh's first novel Mind Searching (2007 [1991]). After having read A Nose for Money (2006) which came with lightning and thunder, Mind Searching entered my mind as a thought provoking but gentle breath of air. The central theme in the two novels is the perverse functioning of the political system and its effects on the man in the street, in Mind Searching explicitly set in Cameroon, in A Nose For Money in the fictional Mimboland, a mirror of Nyamnjoh's beloved and reviled Cameroon.
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