A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA

On the trail of Roger a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe Choupi the narrator takes with him the older Simon a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when at a pit stop Simon goes wandering in search of grilled caterpillars. At the police station in Yaounde the local cop tells them that a feckless boza who wants to go to Europe is not worth police effort and their mother should go and pleasure the police chief if she wants help! Through a series of joyful sparky vignettes Cameroon life is revealed in all its ups and downs. Issues of life and death are raised but the tone remains light and edgy.