Innocence Lost: Selected Excerpts from My Childhood (François Nkémé)

"...When I was a little boy, my mother often went to the city market to buy the rice that I loved more than all the food in the world. I would stay alone in front of the raised courtyard of our house, observing nature, passers-by and the small dishes that make up the special atmosphere at the end of the neighborhood. I think it was this solitude that allowed me to develop the melancholic feelings that have never left me."

Innocence lost in a poetic style is the story of a modest childhood in a small town in Cameroon, Akonokinga, during the seventies. A childhood that still carries the traditional values ​​of our society, namely discipline, respect for elders, morality, solidarity under the foundation of a healthy spirituality intended to form honest men.