Novels
Oyono's novels were written in French in the late 1950s and were only translated into English a decade or two afterward.
Among his works are:
- Une vie de boy (1956; translated as Houseboy in 1966), a diary-form novel that criticized the morality of colonialism
- Le Vieux Nègre et la médaille (1956; translated as The Old Man and the Medal in 1969)
- Chemin d'Europe (1960; translated as Road to Europe in 1989)
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