The woman who ate python & other stories /

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Author / Creator:	Akombi, Sammy Oke.
Imprint:	Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (106 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Cameroonian fiction (English) Cameroonian fiction (English) Cameroon -- Fiction. Cameroon. Electronic books. Fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219073

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Varying Form of Title:	Woman who ate python and other stories
ISBN:	9789956717026 9956717029 9789956558018 995655801X
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to co.

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