Dualla Misipo (1901–1973) was a Cameroonian-German-French writer. His novel Der Junge aus Duala is one of the first postcolonial literary texts written in German.[1] It was first published in 1973, but we presume that parts of it were already written during the interwar period. The novel recounts the story of Ekwe Njembele, a young Cameroonian boy born in the port city of Douala during Germany’s colonial rule. After attending Douala’s German government school, he continues his education in Germany at about age ten. Before he even arrives at his “second home”[2]—a small Hessian town where he will live with a foster family—his journey brings him to Frankfurt am Main. Here, his travel companions—a white German teacher from Douala and his foster father—are eager to immediately take him to the famous Frankfurt Zoo. „Gianna Zocco: AGENCY AND POWERLESSNESS IN AN EARLY POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL IN GERMAN“ weiterlesen