When will you grasp that for the whites, you are only alive to do thei — Ferdinand Oyono

"But for me, it is more than mourning. I have died my first death…."

"I shall be the Chief Europeans boy. The dog of a king is a king of dogs."

"With that he shot out a kick to my shins that sent me sprawling under the table. The Commandants kick was even more painful than the kick of the late father Gilbert. He seemed pleased with his effort."

"He had not remembered me. How might he remember me? All Africans appear to be identical to them. ”"

"Before them, the statue of Holy person Subside, who had been so darkened by the climate that he could have gone for an African, was roosted dubiously on a sort of steeple at such an edge, that it looked as though in a little while he would come toppling down."

"Today, Father Vandermayer came back from the bush. He has brought five women with him. It seems they are Christians that he has taken away from their polygamous husband. Five more boarders for the Sixas. If they knew the work there is waiting for them here, they would have stayed behind with their husband."