Walaande, the art of sharing a husband (Djaïli Amadou Amal)

"We spend our lives suffering! Suffering to please our fathers, then our husbands, then our children. We spend our lives thinking of others when no one ever thinks of us. We spend our lives for others because in reality we don't even have a life. Yes, it's pathetic. Just one word for him to say: I repudiate you, and we suddenly realize that we don't even have a home. We can build together, everything is his. We are nothing, we are worth nothing, we have nothing..."

Cameroonian writer Djaïli Amadou Amal won the Orange Book Prize in Africa and the Pan-African Press Prize with Munyal, the tears of patience in 2019. Walaandé, the art of sharing a husband, her first novel was published in 2010. Its success was so great that it gave her immediate international fame. Prince Claus Foundation Prize, the work has been translated into several languages ​​and distributed around the world. Mistiriijo, the soul eater is her second novel.