Venus Of Khala-Kanti: Hilarious Novel!

The author Angèle Kingué creates a fictional story of how the young woman’s resilience impacted the lives of many others in a positive way.

What would you do if both hands of yours were dismembered from your body? What would you do if that impairment was intentionally inflicted on you by the one you vowed to spend the rest of your life with - your spouse?

What if those closest to you at this trying moment in your life were kind-of like you and struggling to recover from a past filled with bitterness, sorrow and not-too-good decisions they wish were never made? What would become of you? And what if amid all these mishaps, you are just another African woman, living in a typical African society?

These are some of the questions a Cameroonian housewife inadvertently injected into the mind of a US-based Cameroonian varsity lecturer and author, Professor Angele Kinge, leading her to write the awe-inspiring, astonishing, yet, hilarious novel, “Venus of Khala-Kanti,” published in 2005 in French.

The translated English version was published in 2015. Venus of Khala-Kanti is set in a fictional country in West Africa. Inspired by a Cameroonian newspaper report of a woman whose husband cut off her arms because she failed to tether their goat, the author, unable to quit imagining what became of the woman, creates the imaginary village and characters to tell a fictional story of how the...