(Reproduced from Cameroon Post, No. 169, June 23-28, 1993, P.2) There was already quite a crowd milling around the All Anglophone Conference (AAC) Secretariat on the morning of April 2, …
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(Reproduced from The Messenger, Vol. 1, No. 008, Thursday, June 17, 1993, p.2). It was only when we arrived at the All Anglophone Conference (AAC) Secretariat that many of us …
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. …
Mr. Gervais Bindzi-Edzimbi was, or perhaps still is, the First Secretary at Cameroon’s embassy in Washington D.C. I have never met him, nor have I ever spoken to him, but …
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 …
(Reprinted from Cameroon Tribune of August 11, 1987, p.2). The following is an interview I conducted on July 19, 1987 in Douala with Dr Stephen Arnold, then Professor of Comparative …
On June 14, 2011, Cameroon lost an academic giant – Professor Victor Anomah Ngu. As I joined many Cameroonians in and outside our country to mourn the passing into eternity …
Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune, Friday, September 9, 1988 As a student of Comparative Literature, I have always been eager to meet creative writers, especially African ones. Whenever I …
I notice as I grow older that the fingers of my mind frequently reach into the hidden recesses of my memory from where they pull out, and intermittently flash before …