http://www.pietisten.org/authors/SwansonChristine.htmlen-ushttp://www.pietisten.org/fall98/africacameroon.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/fall98/africacameroon.htmlIt’s October 2nd and I’ve been here in Cameroon now almost four months. The first three months were training in a town called Bandjoun (West Province), which is near the large city of Bafoussam.http://www.pietisten.org/summer00/oral.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/summer00/oral.htmlReading Pietisten while surrounded by plantain trees with leaves four-feet long and grass that can be up to eight-feet high, I realize how important the pietist book culture has been to me. Let me begin, in oral culture style, with a story.http://www.pietisten.org/winter00/villagefuneral.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter00/villagefuneral.htmlI spent Christmas Eve, 1998 in Cameroon, West Africa, with another Peace Corps volunteer, watching a Nigerian "home movie." These movies are products of studios in Onitsha, about 250 miles from where I lived. The plots often involve fashionable young urbanites who use love medicine or cast evil spells to get their way. In one, a victim is brought home to his village for funeral rites.http://www.pietisten.org/summer02/fiskar-sofia.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/summer02/fiskar-sofia.htmlOver the past few months I have had the pleasure of translating a memoir by Sofia Franklin. Sofia was the wife of August W. Franklin, an early leader in the Covenant Church.