Hemley Boum scratches scars of colonialism in ‘Days Come and Go’

The happy chain of events was engineered by Boum and her agent, Pierre Astier. They are very aware that African authors who write in French and are published in France either don’t see their book made available on the African continent, let alone in their country. If the book becomes available, the price is often unaffordable for most readers.

Bakwa Books, founded by Dzekashu MacViban in

Yaoundé in 2019, publishes literary and creative non-fiction in English,…