Mission to Kala (Mission termin e) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon.
Instead, he finds that as a scholar his prestige is immense, and he is charged with the duty of travelling to Kala, a remote village, to secure the return of a young woman.
Jean-Marie Medza, the narrator, has just failed his Baccalaur at exam, and returns home expecting humiliation.
It describes the visit of a young Yaounde-educated man to a village in the interior.
It won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1958.
Mission to Kala (Mission termin e) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon