Hot Water for the Famous Seven

Hot Water for the Famous Seven PDF Author: Ntemfac Ofege
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558397
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Book Description
Novel about Sacred Heart College, Mankon, Cameroon.

Hot Water for the Famous Seven

Hot Water for the Famous Seven PDF Author: Ntemfac Ofege
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558397
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Book Description
Novel about Sacred Heart College, Mankon, Cameroon.

Forest Echoes

Forest Echoes PDF Author: Nol Alembong
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956715778
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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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 panorama of the poems. In "Forest Echoes", the title poem, for example, one encounters a poet who, though steeped in his people's struggles, has been able to stand back, watch and evaluate the effects of the interactions of time, events, and society. It is this ability of his, as an involved yet detached observer, along with the trend of events that have scarred his people's lives, which have yielded the powerful emotions that he has assembled in this thematically lush, historically nostalgic, and overwhelmingly evocative collection." - Dr. Emmanuel Fru Doh

Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon

Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon PDF Author: Fru Doh
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956715123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Africa?s Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result is the virtual annihilation of once thriving and proud nations along with the citizenry who are transformed into wretches, vagrants, and in the extreme, refugees. Doh uses Cameroon as an exemplary microcosm to make this point while still holding imperialist ambitions largely responsible for the status quo in Africa. Ultimately, in the hope of jumpstarting the process, he makes pertinent suggestions on turning the tide on the continent.

Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance and the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons

Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance and the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons PDF Author: Carlson Anyangwe
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956715565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Cameroun Republic, a former French-administered UN Trust Territory granted independence on 1 January 1960. This book focuses on the unresolved Southern Cameroons colonial predicament, giving insightful accounts of how Cameroun Republic hijacked the Southe

Born to Rule

Born to Rule PDF Author: Tah Asongwed
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956715131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. The book is more than just the autobiography of a president in that it has responded to all the key issues that most people have been asking about the development and underdevelopment of Africa. It is a seminal contribution to the world's collective knowledge of African and world history. At times it is compellingly incisive, satiric, and tongue-in-cheek and, in some places, trenchantly hard-hitting and humorous in its brutal portrayal of the way Mandzah and, by extension, the African continent, is managed and mismanaged.

Someplace, Somewhere

Someplace, Somewhere PDF Author: Beatrice Fri Bime
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558923
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Someplace, Somewhere is an exemplary piece of socio-political satire. It is a collection of short reflective stories that highlight the predicament of a people and exposes the ills of a society where neglect and decay are the nauseating lure and allure of everyday life. Carefully knit, this collection vividly provokes the nostalgia of the round-the-hearth rural evening story-telling atmosphere of yesteryears. Indeed, Bime has this knack for the fine details of story-telling, which blends so magically with her flare of crude humour, a combination that makes her social satire simply irresistible.

The Bad Samaritan

The Bad Samaritan PDF Author: Alobwed'Epie Alobwed'Epie
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956716332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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The Bad Samaritan is set in a kleptomaniac and highly corrupt imaginary African country called Ewawa. Due to mismanagement, financial institutions collapse. Salaries are slashed and there is unprecedented unemployment leading to country exodus. Professor Esole and his wife are not only aggrieved by the salary slashes, but also by the dubious closure of the Post Office Savings Bank with their savings. Desperate for money, they resort to borrowing from private sources at exorbitant interest rates. Esole toddles into politics with the aim of righting things. Will his nave approach to politics make or mar?

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers PDF Author: Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956616060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fianc refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to keep them in their employ. Resolved to make her disappointments blessings, she perseveres until she can take no more.

The Wooden Bicycle and Other Stories

The Wooden Bicycle and Other Stories PDF Author: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Book Description
The wooden bicycle -- Fateful ride -- One way ticket -- One of a kind -- The money -- Moment of truth -- Caught in-between -- A matter of choice -- Daddy's boy -- Chicken soup.

Shrouded Blessings

Shrouded Blessings PDF Author: Basil Diki
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956616079
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Shrouded Blessings is a tale of four people on a collision course. Naomi, a Xhosa schoolgirl and enchantress given to prostitution that counts the S.A Police Commissioner among her clientele, approaches Fr Bryn Flynn, An Irish priest at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, In Johannesburg, For confession. But Fr Flynn is reeling from the consequences of a parishioner's botched abortion. To The Cathedral also comes Bonginkosi, inheritor of a business empire, To surrender a bloodthirsty and sexually abusive tokoloshe (goblin). As Naomi enjoys her daring escapades, Bonginkosi is catapulted into a maelstrom of spiritual journeys in frantic attempts to get rid of the menace. Beginning in Johannesburg, The story unfolds with great drama and mysticism before a cabbalist in Jerusalem, a diviner in Nigeria, a Lama in the Samye Temple on the Himalayas in Tibet, a Disciplinary Committee of the Vatican, and finally before a Xhosa sangoma (diviner) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. But will the Xhosa sangoma, a diviner in conflict with the Government and his community, a man threatening gods and desperate For The head of an albino, rid Bonginkosi of the goblin and himself of his newly found wife -Naomi? Down and trodden, Is Naomi not being turned day-by-day into a creature that animates her worst fears - a tokoloshe?