The old man and the medal

Oyono

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Date of Issue 1969

Contributing Member AUC Library

Publisher Heinemann

Place of Publication London

Region Africa | Central Africa

Physical Description 167p

Series Report / No African writers

ISBN 435900390

Abstract

The Old Man and the Medal satirizes colonialism through the eyes of a God-fearing and loyal old villager who completely reverses his opinion of the white man on the same day that he is to receive a medal for his "service" (sacrifices of his sons and land) to France.

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