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Cruel city
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ISBN: 0253008301 1283979535 9780253008305 9780253008237 0253008239 9781283979535 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington

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Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of misfortunes, Banda loses both his crop and his bride to be. Making his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa, and as


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Cameroon's predicaments
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ISBN: 9956792411 9789956792412 9789956792382 9956792381 9789956792382 1322458383 Year: 2014 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda

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This book deals with a variety of socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing Cameroon and the rest of Africa, with particular reference to unemployment, corruption, poverty, criminality, violence, insecurity, and moral decadence. It presents a critical analysis of government policies from the colonial era to the present time; arguing that most of these policies have been stalled by an uncommitted leadership. The regime in Cameroon has drifted away from basic managerial and democratic principles in in favour of the ethnicisation of politics, sterile consumption, clientelism and patronage. The book contends that corruption has become the main instrument of governance whereby the political and economic elites control the wealth of the nation at the expense of a majority who wallow in abject poverty and misery. Faced with the difficult economic and political situation, most youth and the intelligentsia have adopted 'official and 'unofficial' means to circumvent all immigration rules to travel to affluent Western countries, the consequences notwithstanding. Brain drain is often the outcome. Further, it examines issues of social exclusion, political representation and marginalization with special focus on the predicament of Anglophone Cameroonians as a socio-cultural community. The inclusion of examples and case studies based on empirical and secondary data from Africa is intended to foreground the importance of comparison, and attract the interest of both academic and non-academic readership.


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Letters to Marion (and the coming generations)
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ISBN: 1283197812 9786613197818 9956715239 9956715352 9956615072 9789956715350 9956558656 9789956558650 9789956558650 9956558656 9789956615070 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cameroon Langaa Research & Pub. CIG

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In this rich and compelling collection of poems the author explores the recesses of the imagination to reveal the different facets of contemporary experience. In doing this he highlights the social, the spiritual, and the metaphysical functions of poetry. The reader will find in the collection sincere expressions of feelings and penetrating thoughts, the genuine tone, spirit and taste of poetry and its ability to provide contemplative clues to prevailing circumstances. The preponderance of stimulating imagery and the overall display of ingenious poeticality reveal the poet as one imbued with a


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The task of today & other seminal essays
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ISBN: 9956727814 9956727792 9789956727810 9789956727797 9789956727063 9956727067 Year: 2012 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda Langaa Research & Publishing CIG :Distributed in N. America by African Books Collective

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This book brings together six seminal essays by Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, essays first published mostly in the 1960s in ABBIA (Cameroon Cultural Review) and in the pages of leading newspapers in Cameroon. Preoccupied with the cultural dignity, humanity and freedom of Africa and Africans, Fonlon never contented himself with stating the problem. In a very Socratic and scientifically systematic approach, he proposed solutions as well. Patiently pedagogical, philosophical and steeped in the classics he convinced his readers through the force of argument. In ìThe Task of Today;î Fonlon invi


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Doctor Frederick Ngenito
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ISBN: 1283197766 9956715166 9786613197764 995671528X 9956616338 9789956715282 9789956616336 9789956616145 9956616141 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG,

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Dr. Frederick Ngenito shocks his entire ethnic community by finally marrying a girl whose rejection of him had cost him an enviable job. But this is nothing compared to the ire of the ancestors when he hides the facts surrounding his irate father's suicide and he is buried without the traditional cleansing, and which reduces him to a wreck. Harrowing but thoroughly enjoyable, this spellbinder of a novel is a brash standoff between filia and eros, science and fetish fears. Bloodcurdling premonitions and raspy raw effects make of this novel of many parts a story of dogged intolerance and catastr


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Forest echoes
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ISBN: 1283197960 9956715654 9786613197962 9956715778 9956616427 9789956715770 9789956616428 9956616362 9789956616367 Year: 2010 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda [East Lansing, Mich.] Langaa RPCIG Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press

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Forest Echoes is a literary quilt revealing a mature poet bestriding generations as he patches together a people's culture, their philosophy, history, along with their attendant woes into a subtle, sometimes disillusioning even, yet purposeful and poignant whole. Nol Alembong is not afraid to be himself in this work: a scholar, teacher, parent, traditionalist and, above all, an Anglophone-Cameroonian. Whatever the case, these are magisterial and equally influential individual traits that have merged into a united whole in forging this poet's identity and concerns as evident from the thematic p


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The sunbird
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ISBN: 1280875585 9956727172 9786613716897 9956727768 9956727652 9789956727650 9789956727766 9789956727766 9956727040 9789956727049 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon Pub. CIG, Langaa Research & amp

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The travails of day-to-day existence notwithstanding, Scolastica is an ordinary woman in Tobeningo who has struggled to carve a fairly successful life for herself. She is not a novice when it comes to putting out fires, thanks to a bubbling teenage daughter, a sugar-daddy chairman of the local Native Authority and the sudden re-appearance of a former sweetheart. But when her son sets out to commemorate his fatherís passing, on a false alarm, it is her life skills and sense of purpose that are tested to the limit. As the sole privy to the true situation, she is in a race against time to avert a

No turning back
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ISBN: 1283198452 9956716855 9786613198457 9956716979 9956615579 9789956716975 9956558052 9789956558056 9789956615575 9789956558056 9789956615575 9956558052 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cameroon Langaa Research & Pub. CIG

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No Turning Back relives the tumultuous beginnings of Africa's democratization experiment in the early 1990's. The main theme of the collection is an investment in hope and in the resilience of Africans. The poems are loud and clear in their castigation of dictatorship and its miseries. They celebrate the mass resolve and thirst for democracy by Africans for whom there is 'No turning back!' 'A lucid and truly memorable collection of poems. Dibussi forces us to turn back and look at the pivotal volcanic moments in Cameroon's history between 1990- 1993... As a student activist and budding journalist...


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Dogs in the sun
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ISBN: 1283197863 9786613197863 9956715409 9956715522 9956615374 9789956715527 9956558583 9789956558582 9789956615377 9789956615377 9956558583 9789956558582 9781283197861 6613197866 9789956715404 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon [East Lansing, Mich.] Langaa Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press

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This compelling narrative pits the legacies of two men in the village of Nwemba. Winjala the Crude, yardman to the English surveyor Pete Harrington, kills the latter's favourite animal, the big monkey called Stirrup, and runs to his village. Sama Gakoh, washerman to Harrington, also returns home when his services are terminated for age reasons. Both hold clashing views of the white man. They die shortly after their return but their sons pick up and sustain their conflicting philosophies. The drama culminates in the fishing contest where the village chief, Ndelu, takes an unprecedented decision


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Majunga Tok
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ISBN: 128319791X 9956715476 9786613197917 995671559X 9956615803 9789956715596 9789956558612 9956558613 9789956615803 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon

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Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially expressed in formal English. A critical understanding of Pidgin English requires not only a thorough grasp of the socio-cultural matrix from which the words and expressions originate but also an immersion in an Afro-centric worldview. Majunga Tok: Poems in Pidgin English is the poet's attempt at capturing these speech patterns of ordinary Cameroonians in written form. Pidgin English, also called b

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