Books by Sami Tchak
“In 1970, French ethnologist Maurice Boyer settles with the Tem of Togo and learns their language. For two years he lives as part of this community, undergoing an intense spiritual and sexual awakening. Back in France he stakes his claim as a great specialist of the Tem. With the tumultuous fictional adventures of Maurice Boyer, Tchak—himself an accomplished sociologist—looks through the mirror of his own studies to consider the dynamics of how Western scientists create the Africa and the Africans they purport to study.” Read more...
The Best Recent Novels from Francophone Africa
Mutt-Lon, Novelist
Interviews where books by Sami Tchak were recommended
The Best Recent Novels from Francophone Africa, recommended by Mutt-Lon
The award-winning Cameroonian novelist Mutt-Lon selects five of the best recent novels from Francophone Africa, including Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s Prix Goncourt-winning La plus secrète mémoire des hommes. These novels, he notes—as with many others from West and Central Africa—are united by a common search for identity in post-colonial Africa.
