Born in Cameroon, Mongo Beti (1932-2001), was a novelist, essayist, committed teacher, bookseller and publisher, is one of the greatest writers in Africa. He wrote in one of his books (Africains si vous parliez that means "Africans if you were talking"):
"Whatever your Third World theorists say, President of the French Republic, no matter what the anthropologists from another age who gather about you and ensure you that they will deliver you the black soul naked, a disinherited people can not convert its present or conquer his future without raising his voice and even hit his fist on the table.
In the dispositions of the Elysee Palace towards Africa, nothing has changed, it is always the same choice, in favor of dictators against the people. The political hopes of our peoples have been most often betrayed or mystified.
The Franco-African powers therefore create the vacuum, organize the morose silence and the encounter with some individuals, some groups, some classes, some ethnics groups, never their dialogue and interpenetration, in a word the obscurantism. Crushed by the cultural institutions whose fate is to alienate us, we intend to create a literature that is the true expression of our collective ego.
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