Camfranglais—The Making of a New Language in Fouda’s Je parle camerounais and Fonkou’s Moi taximan

This study sheds ample light on the various tropes used by Cameroonian writers in an attempt to imprint their fictional writing with the thought patterns and modes of speech of Cameroonians. Cameroonian Francophone writers appropriate the French language by having recourse to rhetorical devices and tropes that transgress the canons of standard French. The reason for resorting to linguistic indigenization goes beyond the mere urge to jettison the writing canons imposed on them by colonial masters.