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.
Upon Pouka's return to Cameroun in the 1950s, he struggled to reconcile his ideals with the harsh realities of colonialism, leading to a sense of dissonance in his writing.