Flavours of Influence
The Rise of Cameroon as a Food Power
Not a cookbook. A way of seeing.
Serge Lemana Oyono and Isabelle Antunès
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Details
- Publisher
- Soft Power Fabrique (Singapore)
- Published
- 26 February 2026
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 272
- Format
- 6 × 0.74 × 9 in (15.2 × 1.9 × 22.9 cm)
- Weight
- 495 g (1.09 lb)
- ISBN-13
- 978-1764537308
- ISBN-10
- 1764537300
The original French edition, Le Cameroun sur la scène internationale du goût : acquis et perspectives pour une diplomatie gastro-culinaire de rayonnement, is published by Afrédit.
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Starting from Cameroon, a question about what abundance becomes.
Cameroon has exceptional biological diversity, extraordinary ingredients and a cuisine of remarkable range. Yet much of this richness does not become lasting economic value at home.
The book follows one thread among others: what happens when what a territory produces drifts away from what its people cook, eat and are recognised for, and what changes when agriculture and culinary culture are reconnected.
It reads cuisine as a source of information on an economy: its resources, its knowledge, its relationships and its possibilities.
What if flavour is economic design?
Cuisine does not only reflect what a country produces. It can also shape what is grown, valued and traded.
Cuisine = Ingredients × Alchemy × Personality × Heritage
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2025
The book also led to the development of a gastrodiplomacy certification at the Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun (IRIC).
“And yet, African culinary heritage is disappearing rapidly in the face of accelerated rural exodus and globalization. This is precisely why this book holds such vital importance.”
“This book is an essential roadmap for food security. It powerfully demonstrates that overcoming malnutrition starts with valuing our local biodiversity and forgotten foods.”
“Flavours of Influence tells us that Asia and Africa have much to learn from each other.”
Serge Lemana Oyono
Cameroonian diplomat and advocate of gastrodiplomacy, working where gastronomy meets a country’s place in the world.
Dr Isabelle Antunès
Founder of Soft Power Fabrique. Geographer (PhD, Paris-Sorbonne University), thirty years of field expertise across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
The book makes a way of seeing visible. Soft Power Fabrique puts it to work.
Discuss your situationThe book continues to travel.
Flavours of Influence is not a one-off publication. It travels through institutions, classrooms, policy discussions, the field, kitchens and cultural spaces, opening conversations, partnerships and new forms of collaboration.