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'The Search for Cultural Identities in Post-Colonial Africa' is Eddy Moto Ewane's first book. It chronicles, with a tinge of humour, efforts of a West African village to identify itself with its cultural and ancestral past, against the backdrop of socio-administrative machinations. From the era under the German protectorate, through that of the British mandate under the League of Nations, to the codified laws of traditional institutions, it depicts the difficult transformation of an ethnic group from a quasi-native village to a modern administrative headquarters. Oral communication between the colonists and the natives passed through several interpreters. With the chain of distortions, the natives unwittingly committed a number of sacrileges. They had to appease their gods - but at which cost? The Search for Cultural Identities in Post-Colonial Africa unveils with stunning detail, the astonishing truth concealed for a century. Eddy Moto Ewane plunges the reader into a society plagued by political and administrative gamesmanship, intrigues, power-mongering, black magic and selfishness. The author's narrative skills of the native mannerisms help to add humour and life to an otherwise historical work.

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Eddy Moto Ewane was born in Bangem, in the Southwest region of Cameroon. A senior commissioned officer in the Cameroon Defense Forces, he teaches in the Yaounde Command and Staff College. He read English Private Law and later, Business Law in the University of Yaounde II Soa, from where he developed an interest in writing - by contributing articles in newspapers under various pseudonyms. He is married and has five children.

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