TY - BOOK ID - 138803704 TI - The Women who Ate Python and Other Stories PY - 2008 SN - 1283198746 9786613198747 9956717975 9956717029 9956615684 PB - Mankon, Bamenda : Baltimore, Md. : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Cameroon UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138803704 AB - A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to co ER -