TY - BOOK ID - 139036289 TI - The Raped Amulet PY - 2008 SN - 1283198614 9956717258 9786613198617 9956717371 9956615676 9789956717378 9956558249 9789956558247 PB - Mankon, Bamenda : Baltimore, Md. : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Friendship KW - Cameroonians KW - University of Warwick KW - Graduate students UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139036289 AB - An extraordinary story of a young man from Africa who tries hard to reconcile the ways he had grown up with, and those he was experiencing in his host country - Great Britain. The story is set in Coventry, in the English Midlands and is told by Dion Ekpochaba, a postgraduate student at the University of Warwick. Dion, fresh from his motherland, Cameroon, loses an amulet, a cherished heritage of his ancestry and becomes desperate about the loss. He meets an elderly English man, Tom Jones who makes a startling revelation: the amulet had just been desecrated by his dog and thrown into the depths ER -