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Flight To Freedom
I walk into the honeycomb dome of a busy Terminal One at Lifafa Airport, glad to seek refuge from the Tiko midday, mid-December sunshine, thanks to the lattice of steel and perspex award winning eco-design, which endows the airport with cool ambient temperatures…. Read More ›
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One Piece Of History In A Loop
Twenty-six years on from 1992, when I wrote this poem in Cameroon, I find myself staring at it and thinking, history sure has an uncanny way of repeating itself…
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Cameroon’s Election 2018: What Outcome In The Incumbent’s Worst-Case Scenario?
In a rudimentary simulation assuming an abysmal performance across the country for Cameroon’s ruling party, CPDM/RDPC, at the polls on the 7th October 2018, it is possible to estimate the gains and losses spanning the political field with the following… Read More ›
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Revisiting Orwell’s Farm, Amba Farm.
Three hoots defined Aunty Lady’s Monday. The first was the taxi-driver beginning his shift with market women at the Bondogo-Babuti junction, Buea. The next was the delipidated smoking kindergarten school bus doing the rounds for excited children, and the last… Read More ›
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Peace In Cameroon – You Know Not What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone
Peace In Cameroon: You Never Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone There is an expression – aim for the moon, if you miss you’ll find yourself among the stars. Well not quite. You overshoot the moon, you are lost… Read More ›
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Peace In Cameroon – You’ll Never Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone.
“Aim for the moon and if you miss it, you’ll find yourself among the stars.”, goes the expression but literally, it is not quite so, because overshooting the moon means you are adrift in space with a distance of 4.2… Read More ›
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Of Bulbs, Bubbles and Bitcoin
Lilium and Tulipa are of a family of plants known as Lilliodeae. They are predominantly bulbous herbaceous flowering plants found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Typical to their genus these plants produce fragrant flowers in different colours which… Read More ›
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Glory To Gory Days
“We interrupt this program to bring you an announcement from the Southern Cameroon Armed Forces Ruling Council.” The FM station which faded in and out on the solar radio announced. Emi knew almost instinctively what was going to come next…. Read More ›
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Has the Falconer Lost Control Of His Falcon?
Falconry is an old well-established sport in which the falconer releases the trained falcon or some other bird of prey to go after game. He does so with the knowledge that upon his summons, the falcon would return to him…. Read More ›
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Don’t Go Blindly Into That Goodnight
“Talibanisation” and “Bokoharamisation” are not words available in the English Oxford dictionary, yet these coined expressions conjure up genuine words such as “intolerance”, “mindlessness”, “intimidation” and “terror”, as did with the image of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Comprehensive College, Nkwen… Read More ›
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