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Main basse sur le Cameroun

Mongo Beti, Maspero, original edition, 1972, Archives Maison des Passages

Main basse sur le Cameroun, autopsie d’une décolonisation (1972) by Mongo Beti, is an uncompromising book about the dictator Ahmadou Ahidjo and his protectors in France. After an arduous legal battle initiated by its author and publisher, they succeeded, in 1976, in annulling a ban.