DOUALA IN TRANSLATION

A View of the City and its Creative and its Creative Transformative Potentials

Lucia Babina and Marilyn Douala Bell

With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon’s most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual’art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala – both real and fictionalized. With 20 entries and hundreds of full-color photos, the collaboration expresses the role of art and public space in a modern West African city, and its writers delve beyond prejudice toward the developing world to glean an understanding of the transformative influence of art and creativity in a rapidly developing African metropolis. Awarded Best Dutch Book Design 2007.

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