Dulu Mengue Mengues Journey

On August 8, 1952, At Just Twenty-six Years Old, Mengue Learned, While In Zoetele Where She Had Gone With Her Four Young Children, The Youngest One Just Three Months Old, That Her Husband Had Been Killed In A Traffic Accident In Yaounde. Dulu, Which Means Journey, Is The Story Of This Young Woman As She Tried To Come To Terms With Her Life, Which Had Just Been Blown To Pieces By This Tragedy: The Sudden And Brutal Realization That She Was Now The Head Of The Family And The Sole Provider For Her Young Children, Something That She Was Totally Unprepared For; The Intense Grieving She Was Going Through; The Greed And Cruelty Of Her In-laws Who Had Their Eyes Set On Inheriting Her Late Husbands Assets And Depriving Her And Her Children; How To Find The Wisdom, Strength, Determination, And Commitment To Prioritize And Fund The Childrens Education; And The Bewildering Struggle To Understand And Internalize The Fact That She And Her Children Now Faced A Life Without The Man Who Had Sustained And Defined Them. All This Was Happening In A Society Dominated By Men And Still Under The Grip Of Colonization.