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66 Drama Translation: Principles and Strategieschances are that feelings of sympathy (and of remorse as the casemay be) would converge towards the affected society and galvanizea change of attitude or policy on the part of the intruder.Also, when viewed from another perspective, Cameroonianliterature in particular and African literature in general is generallyconsidered less developed than Western literatures that have a verylong and established oral and written tradition and until recentlyhave continued to serve as creative models for the youngerliteratures of the African continent.In the African pre- and post-independence context it seemsvery unlikely, therefore, that a play written in French with anticolonialmotives and targeting a French audience in France would betranslated for an English audience in Britain with the objective ofacculturating or naturalizing it in order to integrate it in the Englishliterature and culture.REFERENCESAaltonen, S. (1993) Rewriting the Exotic: The Manipulation ofOtherness in Translated Drama. Proceedings of XIII FITWorld Congress. London: Institute of Translation andInterpreting.______(1996) Acculturation of the Other: Irish Milieu in FinnishDrama Translation. Target 9 (1).(2000) Time-Sharing on Stage: Drama Translation inTheatre and Society. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.Bandia, P. (1993) Translation as Culture Transfer: Evidence fromAfrican Creative Writing. TTR 6 (2): 55-76.