Up Station Mountain Club tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-42988 2012-02-20T06:34:32-05:00 Man no run... TypePad <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.postnewsline.com/2012/02/kondengui-by-dr-pw-vakunta-kondengui-not-a-figment-of-my-imagination-this-awful-eponym-harbors-myriads-of-tribulat.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.postnewsline.com/2012/02/kondengui-by-dr-pw-vakunta-kondengui-not-a-figment-of-my-imagination-this-awful-eponym-harbors-myriads-of-tribulat.html" thr:count="0" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e7abb806970c</id> <published>2012-02-20T06:34:32-05:00</published> <updated>2012-02-20T06:34:32-05:00</updated> <summary>Kondengui By Dr. P.W. Vakunta Kondengui, Not a figment of my imagination. This awful eponym harbors myriads of tribulations— Torture, maiming, killing, crimes against humanity... Kondengui, Hell on earth! 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But critics see in his recent appointment an act of discrimination and neglect against Africa - a continent... Harry Yemti Sport: Cameroon Squad to Face Guinea Bissau Exposes Lack of Creative Talent tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef01676279b2e8970b 2012-02-16T20:45:11-05:00 2012-02-16T20:45:11-05:00 Denis Lavagne, the head coach of Cameroon's Indomitable Lions, has named a 22-man squad expected to travel to Guinea Bissau at the end of February for an Africa Cup of Nations 2013 qualifier. Benoit Assou-Ekotto’s absence from the list has... George Esunge Fominyen Boko Haram and the Fear of Islamic Extremism in Cameroon: Part 3 – Beyond the Hysteria... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef01676277c1b1970b 2012-02-16T17:54:01-05:00 2012-02-16T17:54:01-05:00 By Dibussi Tande January 2012 was a particularly hectic and nerve-wracking month for Cameroonian security and intelligence services, along with political, administrative and religious authorities in the “Grand Nord” as they frantically tried to put measures in place to hold... jimbimedia The Flown Bodies of Pop Stars tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0163015d414f970d 2012-02-15T19:11:07-05:00 2012-02-16T18:39:41-05:00 (Found Poem: unusual words) Drugs, I don't know, bad people or influence, I don't know. They took over her dreams, love and motherhood. Think about Presley, Monroe, Jackson, And Winehouse. Whatever gets one into drugs... What happens when you have... Ujin Song of Al-Obaidi tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0163014d2380970d 2012-02-13T05:59:06-05:00 2012-02-16T18:46:49-05:00 [Found poem: for Al-Obaidi*] "I'm not afraid of Death anymore, Not of Gaddafi’s men! Look at my face, Look at my back; Look at my body, Look at my feet. They tied me up. In the sands, And stuffed my... Ujin 46th National Youth Day: President Biya's Message to the Youth tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e729f3b7970c 2012-02-11T11:29:07-05:00 2012-02-11T11:29:07-05:00 HEAD OF STATE’S MESSAGE TO THE YOUTH ON THE OCCASION OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE 46TH EDITION OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH DAY 10 February 2012 My dear young compatriots, In my message to the Nation a few weeks ago, I... jimbimedia [Video] Striking Tole Tea Workers Block Main Road to Buea tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0167621cd404970b 2012-02-10T16:11:23-05:00 2012-02-10T16:11:23-05:00 More details on the AFRICAphonie and Zofem and Twitpic websites jimbimedia Case of a Stolen Baby in Cameroon: Protest March in Support of Child's Mother tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e711510f970c 2012-02-09T19:38:33-05:00 2012-02-10T16:19:43-05:00 Translated from French by Dr. Vakunta (From RFI) The theft of a new-born from the Gynaecology Hospital in Yaounde on August 20 last year is still causing indignation and bitter feelings. Male and female politicians have taken center stage in... Wuteh The Cameroonian Crisis: Call For A Truth and Reconciliation National Conference (TRNC) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef016300f4899a970d 2012-02-07T15:03:51-05:00 2012-02-10T16:22:37-05:00 By Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta As I ponder the Cameroonian Crisis, it is increasingly becoming clear to me that it is time Cameroonians plucked up the courage to look at themselves in the mirror and ask the following question upfront:... Wuteh Aristide pushes for restitution from France tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef016761e903b9970b 2012-02-07T14:25:43-05:00 2012-02-10T16:24:32-05:00 Haiti's leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, sends France a bill for $21 billion. Many are calling the effort a distraction. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES Part of a series of reports marking Haiti's bicentennial. Almost 200 years after rebellious slaves drove a humiliated French... Wuteh Action Cameroon: Stolen Tole Tea, Stolen Baby, Football Fiasco and Ethnic Riots: Part 1 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e6a4a6c7970c 2012-02-04T03:48:20-05:00 2012-02-04T03:48:20-05:00 Louis Egbe Mbua (originally published in Living Lights) I turned back my mind to revisit the general social contour of my country Cameroon as to what has changed and what has stayed the same in the last few years. The... Louis Egbe Mbua A Celebration of African Orature:Niane's Sundiata(revised edition, 2006) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e692ee82970c 2012-02-02T15:42:11-05:00 2012-02-10T16:26:19-05:00 By Dr. Peter Vakunta Djibril Tamsir Niane's Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali(revised version, 2006) is an excellent example of novelistic palimpsest. This novel is a parody of the Epic of Sundiata.It is a reproduction of the epic tale of... Wuteh Once Upon a Time Buea tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e685be78970c 2012-02-01T21:09:16-05:00 2012-02-01T21:09:16-05:00 By Mwalimu George Ngwane Born out of the quadruple heritage of her pre-colonial existence, her clash with German civilisation, her contact with British colonialism and her birth to the Federal Republic of Cameroon, Buea’s trajectory in the comity of cities... jimbimedia [Poetry] Franglish Around the Mungo tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e672a203970c 2012-01-31T19:09:29-05:00 2012-02-10T17:03:04-05:00 By Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta Chaque fois que I think about the deep merde Into which these salopards de politiciens Have plunged this freaking pays, Je jure que I have the urge to leur tordre le cou With my unarmed... Wuteh Vendetta of an Indefatigable Combatant tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e60a3e6b970c 2012-01-25T00:15:49-05:00 2012-02-10T16:58:55-05:00 By Dr. Peter W.Vakunta Two months after landing a job with the Upper Nun Valley Rice Company, the manager invited Kunta to his office one morning and gave him the keys of a brand new Yamaha motor-cycle. He exhorted him... Wuteh On “You Lazy (Inellectual) African Scum” and “Blacks Don’t Read” tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef016760f5797b970b 2012-01-23T13:25:49-05:00 2012-01-23T13:25:49-05:00 A Commentary by Emmanuel Konde Field Ruwe’s “You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum” and the much vaunted anonymous-written “Blacks Don’t Read” belong to a genre of literature well-established in the West that speaks truth about the African mentality. Admittedly, these short... jimbimedia Just Published! African Nationalism in Cold War Politics by Emmanuel Konde tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef016760f5727e970b 2012-01-23T13:20:36-05:00 2012-01-23T13:31:56-05:00 Emanuel Konde. African Nationalism in Cold War Politics: 1952-1954, Cameroons' Um Nyobe Presents The Upc Program For Authentic Independence At The United Nations. Xlibris, Corp. (January 20, 2012), 226 pages. Available on amazon.com. ($19.99) One of the greatest chapters in... jimbimedia You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef016760ebfe0a970b 2012-01-22T10:38:29-05:00 2012-01-22T10:38:29-05:00 Culled from Mind of Malaka (January 18, 2012) and written by Field Ruwe*** They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally... Innocent Chia Picture of the Day: Novelist Shandie Shing Avwontom tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e5991b3f970c 2012-01-15T20:51:08-05:00 2012-01-16T14:01:53-05:00 Cameroonian novelist Shandie Shing Avwontom reading from his debut novel, TIKO, during a book reading - a fresh and new approach to introducing books in Cameroon, quite different from the more formal and less intimate traditional book launching ceremonies. jimbimedia Speaking Truth to Power Puts Writer Behind Bars on Trumped Up Charges tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0168e57d954e970c 2012-01-13T19:49:57-05:00 2012-01-13T19:49:57-05:00 By Larry Eyong An authoritative french-cameroonian writer, has called for the rotation of the office of president, as the only means of forstalling the breakup of Cameroon into two separate countries. Enoh Meyomesse, who hails from president Paul Biya’s Bulu... jimbimedia Cameroon: Essayist and Blogger Arrested and Charged with Robbery tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0167606b78fb970b 2012-01-12T15:08:50-05:00 2012-01-12T15:11:46-05:00 Enoh Meyomesse, a Cameroonian writer and blogger [fr] was arrested on November 22, 2011 at Nsimalen airport in Yaoundé, Cameroon on his way back from Singapore. Charged with robbery by the military court of Bertoua, in the north of the... jimbimedia Befitting Funeral or Befitting Life? Celebrating the dead over the living tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0167605e6ec3970b 2012-01-11T17:39:46-05:00 2012-01-11T17:39:46-05:00 By Innocent Chia: Courtesy Dunia Magazine - Print Issue 6 At almost every funeral that I can remember attending, there has been at least one person whose eulogy has been a reminder that “we are here to celebrate the life... Innocent Chia <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.postnewsline.com/2012/01/cameroons-separatist-scnc-still-pushing-its-causesummarythe-southern-cameroons-national-council-scnc-is-an-anglophonesepara.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.postnewsline.com/2012/01/cameroons-separatist-scnc-still-pushing-its-causesummarythe-southern-cameroons-national-council-scnc-is-an-anglophonesepara.html" thr:count="3" thr:updated="2012-01-13T10:46:30-05:00" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c824e53ef0167605c8632970b</id> <published>2012-01-11T13:49:59-05:00</published> <updated>2012-01-11T13:49:59-05:00</updated> <summary>Cameroon's Separatist SCNC Still Pushing Its Cause Summary The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) is an Anglophone separatist movement whose ultimate goal is a return to the two-state Federation which existed pre-1972. The movement has used violence in the past...</summary> <author> <name>Wuteh</name> </author> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="2011 Presidential Election" /> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Aloysius Agendia" /> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="AYAH Paul ABINE" /> <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Bill F. 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