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Cameroon's predicaments
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ISBN: 9956792411 9789956792412 9789956792382 9956792381 9789956792382 1322458383 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,

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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 9781283197816 9789956715237 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, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG,

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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 9781283197762 9789956715169 6613197769 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 9781283197960 9789956715657 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 9781280875588 9789956727179 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG,

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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

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