Ferdinand Oyono Quotes

But for me, it is more than mourning. I have died my first death….

Today, Father Vandermayer came back from the bush. He has brought five women with him. It seems they are Christians that he has taken away from their polygamous husband. Five more boarders for the Sixas. If they knew the work there is waiting for them here, they would have stayed behind with their husband.

'Brother,’ he said. ‘Brother, what are we? What are we blackmen who are called French?

Cover up your dirty old arse and show me your papers!

My son, you are young enough to be my son, why do you want to shed blood as old as your own father’s? Why do you want to bring a curse on you and your…

Get up, you pig! Where are your papers? Where have you come from? What are you doing fucking around here?

O man with the electric torch. God has sent you to me. Come and help me to find the path leading to the location….

All these people who pretended they had come to grieve with Meka were just dogs.

If you heart begins to beat when you get to the end of your journey, retrace your steps.

Fuck off out of here! Go on get out of my hut!

A panther-rat runs along the path. He knows where he is going.

My future parents-in-law had asked me for a bundle of stock-fish so that I could marry their daughter according to civil rites. I have already given them thirty thousand francs, a case of beer, a pith-helmet, a sack of salt, three matchets, three sheep, a water-bucket, a cast-iron cooking pot, and a sack of rice. All that was left was the stock fish.

Oh, road, daughter of all our labour, lead me to the white man!

A good hunter is like a whore, you can smell one a mile of.

I thought I had married a man, a real man… instead I married an arse-full of shit. My Children, my poor children – sold like the Lord who was sold by Judas…