Essential Encounters Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Th r se Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story of love, infertility, a failed marriage, and adultery looks at both interpersonal connections and national politics from a feminist perspective. In the introduction the volume editor, Cheryl Toman, provide... Full description