(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune of Friday, January 15, 1988). When this innocent, comical piece first appeared in the English edition of Cameroon Tribune on Friday, 15 January 1988, …
Category: Musings
(First appeared in Cameroon Tribune of Friday, February 6, 1987). President Paul Biya’s call to the Cameroonian intellectual community to reflect and advise him on just what future we intend …
I am at the University of Buea (UB) on a Saturday morning for a meeting with a translator/interpreter colleague of mine. I have arrived much earlier than the meeting time …
The operator’s voice was politely sweet and welcoming, wishing me a good morning, reminding me that the telephone company was entirely at my service. Could she help me? “Yes, Ma’am. …
There is a beer house overlooking the turbid, heavily polluted waters of the Wouri River in the Akwa District of Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital. To my friend Andy “Young” and …