Rescue The Blood

Nsong Sougou and his wife Marie Colombe come from Eyemeyema Country. They meet in Bitanda Country and get married. When they go back home, Nsong Sougou''s parents accuse Marie Colombe of witchcraft and reject her. Encouraged by her husband and her sister-in-law Ndèbot, Marie Colombe will eventually join her grandmother-in-law Mvam in Ndzisse Ngang village. Mvam first welcomed her granddaughter Ndèbot who ran away from her mother''s house for being accused of witchcraft few years earlier. This novel displays the intricacies involved in allegations of witchcraft against children in postcolonial Africa. Are there solutions liable to help these children build a strong positive self-image? The work is addressed to scholars and students in African Literature and socio-cultural discourses.

Autorentext

Abessolo-Mbala Nkanga, Honorine-Bernadette holds a PhD in Francophone African Literature (2007) from the University of Michigan. Currently she works as a substitute teacher in the Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Washtenaw Public Schools Systems in the State of Michigan, USA. She was a lecturer at the Institut National des Sciences de Gestion in Libreville-Gabon between 1990 and 2000.