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Beware the drives
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ISBN: 1283198029 9956715727 9786613198020 9956715840 9956615811 9789956715848 9789956615810 9956558850 9789956558858 Year: 2008 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG,

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This collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of man. The observation brought this writer to the conclusion that man is dominated by fear and in his effort to conquer it, he resorts to unbridled aggression. Such aggression has been very instrumental in much of the success that humanity has been able to achieve, so far. But at the same time, the same aggression in man's nature has been responsible for the pleasure he takes in the ruthless destruction of his own kind, the environment in


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God the Artist and Other Poems
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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God the Artist and Other Poems is a work of art that resonates with the people of Cameroon, Africa and the world. The collection of over seventy poems celebrates humanity and human beauty. At the same time the poems remind humanity of and castigate its shortcomings.

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Wages of corruption
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ISBN: 1283198703 9956717738 9786613198709 9956717851 9956615366 9789956717859 9956558478 9789956558476 9781283198707 9789956717736 6613198706 9789956558476 9956558478 9789956615360 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research and Pub. CIG,

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Corruption is endemic in Cameroon. Twice, Transparency International have accorded the country the infamous first place in corruption. As one of many concerned Cameroonians, Sammy Oke Akombi was moved and they realized that something was in fact wrong somewhere and something had to be done somehow. This collection of short stories is his contribution to the collective resolve by concerned Cameroonians to wage a war against this most unusual friend of fairness. The stories seek to elicit awareness about a social ill that is ironically championed by the very politicians, functionaries, educator,


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The Women who Ate Python and Other Stories
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ISBN: 1283198746 9786613198747 9956717975 9956717029 9956615684 Year: 2008 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda : Baltimore, Md. : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, Project MUSE,

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A collection of six thought-provoking stories, four of which were award-winning-stories at the 1990 literary contest of the national Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers (APEC). The stories are set in different localities in Africa and Cameroon in particular. The author in a lucid manner explores the theme of women lib- the African way in the lead story. Ebenye, the protagonist, representing the sharp-witted African woman cannot understand why she should cook food without tasting of it. So she decides to take the bold step of eating a piece of the python that she has been ordered to co

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The Raped Amulet
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ISBN: 1283198614 9956717258 9786613198617 9956717371 9956615676 9789956717378 9956558249 9789956558247 Year: 2008 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda : Baltimore, Md. : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, Project MUSE,

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An extraordinary story of a young man from Africa who tries hard to reconcile the ways he had grown up with, and those he was experiencing in his host country - Great Britain. The story is set in Coventry, in the English Midlands and is told by Dion Ekpochaba, a postgraduate student at the University of Warwick. Dion, fresh from his motherland, Cameroon, loses an amulet, a cherished heritage of his ancestry and becomes desperate about the loss. He meets an elderly English man, Tom Jones who makes a startling revelation: the amulet had just been desecrated by his dog and thrown into the depths

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