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[The author's] goals of helping foreigners communicate in multiethnic Cameroon and laying groundwork for further serious documentation are admirably realized (p.4). He shares more than enough information to enable both accomplishments. The book's large amount of data, especially the hundreds of full sentences in the Pidgin Proverbs and Sayings appendix, ensure that the determined reader can proceed beyond the standard-English oriented contrastive presentation and answer most questions that a linguist's analysis would address. [...] In summary, this volume is a fine and stimulating introduction to a West African contact language. Filled with extensive usage examples, it is sure to reward readers both lay and linguistic in orientation. Any future edition can easily build on what is already contained between its covers, expanding into a detailed, authoritative reference for much future study. David Douglas Robertson LINGUIST List 27.3554, 09.09.2016

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Nkemngong Nkengasong is Professor of Literature at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. He has published extensively on Modernism in English literature, African literature and culture, postcolonial studies, and literary stylistics. He is also a prolific creative writer who has published several works of fiction, drama and poetry. The present volume reveals his current interests in the interrelations of literature, linguistics and cultural studies.

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