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My master is thickset. His legs have great muscles like the legs of a pedlar. He is the kind of man we call 'mahogany-trunk' because the trunk of the mahogany tree is so strong that it never bends in a storm. I am not a storm. I am the thing that obeys.

— Ferdinand Oyono Houseboy (1956)

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There are things one prefers not to think about but that doesn't mean one forgets about them.

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Everybody told his own little African story to refute him and demonstrate that the African is a child or a fool.

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Life, he says, is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.

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