Nevertheless, when Pouka returned to Cameroun in the 1950s, his poems were increasingly characterised by a "vague uneasiness". Pouka struggled to reconcile his belief in French culture and equality and his realisation that colonialism did not allow for the equality of Africans and Europeans.
However, upon Pouka's return to Cameroun in the 1950s, his poems started to exhibit an increasing sense of ambiguity and discontent.