Renewing the Promise by Julius Nyamkimah Fondong is a 154-page storied history of Cameroon’s failed attempt at yoking together its disparate peoples into a nation with a common, consensual destiny.
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Julius Fondong’s Renewing the Promise
This book is an illuminating window and an epic in education, as Julius Fondong writes incisively on the current situation in Cameroon. The writer’s modest pitch, which is almost apologetic, is an invitation to the reader to stand on this vista and gaze upon the nation, now on the brink of a disaster.
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In this very riveting and well-researched essay, Julius Fondong ruminates on the continued relevance of the promises and principles that underpinned the creation of the post-colonial Cameroon nation-state, sixty years after unification in 1961.
Read moreBearing Witness: A Protest in Poetry
This compendium pulsates with rage. A rage that had been smouldering with the intensity of a welder’s blowtorch for decades, before erupting into a full-flared conflagration. It is a literary buffet of Cameroonian poets, driven by the galvanizing idea to comment on the cataclysmic events that saw a seismic change in the socio-political landscape of the two Anglophone regions. The different poets managed to capture the angst and the hopes of a people trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.
Read moreMy Night in Captivity
In this gripping, lucid and succinct account, Cardinal Tumi, the retired Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Douala, Cameroon, invites readers into the dreary night of his captivity by “Amba Boys” – so-called liberation fighters seeking the restoration of the erstwhile British Southern Cameroons.
Read moreSilence Warns: A Poem
Five published poets by Spears Books pulled together to compose “Silence Warns” in the wake of the brutal killing of 7 children in Kumba, South West Region, Cameroon.
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