Reading Max Lobe "Confidences"

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Leipzig-based publisher akono is publishing the novel Confidences ( translation by Katharina Triebner-Cabald) by francophone author Max Lobe (French: Confidences).

In it, the author returns to his native Cameroon and travels to the Bassa Forest to find out from the old Mâ Maliga what she knows about the independence movement in Cameroon and its leader Ruben Um Nyobè.

Confidences is the story of this talkative and mischievous woman who experienced the resistance against the colonial power first hand. While telling her story, she does not forget to drink palm wine and let her counterpart taste it too.

In a mixture of light drunkenness and deep seriousness, we learn the story of Cameroon's independence and its secret war.

Max Lobe, born in Duala in 1986, is a novelist, poet and cultural activist living in Geneva and is the author of five novels. The themes that run through his work include queerness, migration and post-colonialism. Lobe is the founder of GenevAfrica, an organization that aims to build cultural bridges between Swiss and continental African authors.

Admission free.

Moderation: Annegret Richter

German voice: Dagmar Hunold

In cooperation with the Institute français Dresden.

This event was co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the state parliament.

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