TY - BOOK ID - 77943675 TI - Searching for Bate Besong PY - 2014 SN - 9956792616 9789956792610 9956791717 9789956791712 9789956791712 1322320195 PB - Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, DB - UniCat KW - Dockinta KW - Besong, Bate KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Nigeria KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943675 AB - The future of the country in Searching for Bate Besong is compromised by irresponsible leadership, falsehoods, blind tyranny, waste, and lawlessness. Visionaries like Dockinta (a literary incarnation of Bate Besong, one of Cameroon's most fiery and revolutionary authors) who try to question or expose the status-quo are incarcerated and tortured by the brute forces of dictatorship. It however only needs the strong will and audacity, the messianic self-sacrifice and determination (which are the values Dockinta incarnates), to expose, ridicule and destroy power drunkenness. This play is sine qua non to searching for the collective memory of a community marginalized and subjugated by successive regimes of exploitation and repression. It promises the rediscovery of the dignity and destiny of an active volcano wrongfully rendered docile. The Search will liberate a people who agonized from the whips by the Germans, the hypocrisy of the British, the outright exploitation of the French and the eternal domination of La Republique du Cameroun. The search will culminate in liberating not only Cameroonians, but Africa from corruption, nepotism, tribalism, organized crime, wars and the abuse of basic human rights and freedoms. ER -