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 ›
Politics
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Two Questions ??
Originally published on my FaceBook page in February, the poem, "Two Questions??" was penned during the throes of the internet shutdown in the NW & SW Regions of Cameroon as well as a shutdown of Anglophone schools and universities due… Read More ›
Internet Shutdown NW / SW Regions – The Embodiment Of Marginalisation?
“Marginalisation?!”, “Nous allons vous montrer ce que nous appellons la marginalisation!” Were these words in the thoughts and intention of the signatory and or co-signatories to the order which shut down internet services in the North West and South West… Read More ›
An Unsolicited Reply To Unsolicited Mail : A Rebuttal to Leave.EU.
Returning from my Easter Holidays and sifting through the mail, I found one which roused my curiosity not only from the order of my names but from the sender address – Cribbs Causeway. Thinking this was perhaps something to do with… Read More ›