We are pleased to host Passant Fouad and discuss her translation of the novel, which won the State Encouragement Award in translation in 2023.

African Literature translations are rare, and great horizons remain before us that we have not discovered, among our neighbors in the African continent. In this novel, Cameroon is represented as a dark continent in the face of colonialism and disease. We see hope and the beginning of the rebellion and independence movements. African customs and traditions are portrayed by the status of women, the environment and culture. Thus, we find many similarities between Egypt and Cameroon, because they are both within the African continent, and they share belonging, problems, solutions, and possibilities for cooperation.