The Old Man and the Medal
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The Old Man and the Medal
The Old Man and the Medal is a 1956 post-colonial novel by Cameroonian diplomat and writer Ferdinand Oyono. The whole book is about the old man called Meka who has lost his two sons and the land that he gave to the whites. He is now very old and lives a very poor life. The novel explores hypocrisy; oppression; nepotism; racism/racial discrimination, etc.