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Spillover from Tony Blair's Testimonies on Iraq Inquiries:The War They Wanted, the Lies They Needed By Craig Unger Vanity Fair

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House.

 

    It's a crisp, clear winter morning in Rome. In the neighborhood between the Vatican and the Olympic Stadium, a phalanx of motor scooters is parked outside a graffiti-scarred 10-story apartment building. No. 10 Via Antonio Baiamonte is home to scores of middle-class families, and to the embassy for the Republic of Niger, the impoverished West African nation that was once a French colony.

Introducing Peasant Economists, PEECAS, and its From Us, For Us and By Us Vision

Critical question. Where will Cameroon be

in 50 years time? What future are we preparing for our children, and the children of our children? Who shall build us schools and hospitals, build bridges over our rivers, electrify our towns and villages, tar our roads, and supply clean drinking water to our poor villages? So many questions,  but very few answers.

Unfortunately.

We believe that Peasant Economists is the answer. In fact, we believe every one of us is the answer to these questions.  We, the Peasant Economists, believe the future of our country lies in our hands. The marginalisation, isolation and neglect we face in our own country today  is not, must not and can not  be accepted as an explanation of and a justification of indifference. The hard times should instead be seen as a challenge and a call to immediate action. The solutions to our numerous problems can only come from us, for us, by us.

The Concept of Peasant Economists: An Innovative Approach to Community Development By Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

Could it just be that by bringing people together to poll all their financial and intellectual wealth together, community projects like the provision potable water, the maintenance of roads, the construction of schools, the invention and sustenance of electricity, the improved of health services and innovative agriculture could be handled better and faster than by governments?

This is what PEECAS or the Peasant Economists Association, code named PEECAS,  is all about. PEECAS was initiated by its founding fathers, who are based in Cameroon and abroad, to underscore the importance of any do-it-yourself projects to local communities.

Its was founded on the premise that individuals, groups and communities could and shoule be catalysts of their own development initiatives without exclusive dependence on the government for support.

As a spillover, the provision of basic infrastructure and community services could curb rural-urban exodus.  As a compliment,  asylum seekers searching for the ever-elusive Golden Fleece in seeming greener pastures in Europe and elsewhere can be lured back to their villages thanks to improved services and basic infrastructure.

The Fantastic Road to Mamfe. Take Two

The Fantastic Road to Mamfe

Bamenda-Mamfe Road this Day

Buea: The Capital City of the Southern Cameroons

The Official Document: The African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights Ruling on the Southern Cameroons

ACHPR Ruling: Biya Regime given 180 Days to Dialogue with SCNC, SCAPO, under African Commission Supervision; recognizes

Southern Cameroonians

as a People
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How to Engage and Defeat Mr Biya in 2011, Even with Fraud ELECAM, ETC. By Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

By Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

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The Trump Card – the National Identity card.

The above strategies are designed to facilitate the emergence of a genuine leadership, one committed to the foundation principle that it is imperative to change the system change Cameroon. The argument is that there is no pointing changing the leader while maintaining the same system that turned Cameroon into a failed state in the first place. This leadership should also be committed to the principle of non-violent change. Helpful as the above strategies could be in creating a leadership, defining goals, circumscribing objectives and garnering focus, they do not constitute the essential single, deadly, magical bullet to pierce the Cameroonian dictator in the heart. These methods do not beat the system. Is non-violent change possible in Cameroon? Of course it is! Can the Biya system be beaten even as it is? Of course, it can be beaten! Not only beaten but annihilated! This is the how of the thing.

 

Ambassador Janet Garvey versus Clement Zabloiski; A Conflict of Choice, Intellect and Vision. By Ntemfac Aloysius Nchwete Ofege

Ambassador Janet Garvey versus Clement Zabloiski; A Conflict of Choice, Intellect and Vision

By Ntemfac Aloysius Nchwete Ofege

The Complete Document

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ACPRH Ruling: Biya Regime given 180 Days to Dialogue with SCNC, SCAPO, under African Commission Supervision; recognizes Southern Cameroonians as a People.

ACHPR Ruling: Biya Regime given 180 Days to Dialogue with SCNC, SCAPO, under African Commission Supervision; recognizes

Southern Cameroonians

as a People.

By Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

 

Contrary to  a communiqué from Biya regime spokesman, Issa Bakary Tchiroma, claiming that the self-determination case brought against the government of Cameruon at the Banjul African Court of Human and Peoples Rights, ACHPR, was thrown out of court, the ACHPR did the opposite. Mr. Tchiroma’s communiqué was read over CRTV and published in Cameroon Tribune under the fake Com. 223/2007 whereas the SCNC/SCAPO case in

Banjul

is Com. 266/2003. 

The African Commission not only frowned at all attempts by the Biya government to have the case thrown out, but it also dismissed and discountenanced all arguments brought against the SCNC and SCAPO by the Biya regime and then passed a milestone ruling or recommendation.

The African Human Rights Commission found that, with regards to the

Southern Cameroons

issue, the Biya and Ahidjo regimes violated a number of important rights protected by the African Charter. 

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Doctoring the Spin Doctors by Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

By Ntemfac Ofege

Curioser and curioser. A French newspaper says that for his latest ‘private stay’ at the Hermitage and Royal hotels in L

a Baule , France, Mr. Paul BIYA, President of Cameroun, and his retinue of some 43 happy-go-lucky souls, incinerated 27.000.000fcfa a day on choice items like lodging, feeding, shopping, manicure, pedicure, massage, what have you.

The newspaper report, taken up by two other major French newspapers, stated clearly that for his circa three week stay in France, Paul Biya and his merry men used up some 600.000.000fcfa! The Biya government itself announced that Mr. Biya actually spent only 1.000.000.000fcfa for his vacation, but that part of the bill was picked up by the very French Bolloré Group.

Picture of Mr Biya recruiting Fouks...a Spin Doctor.

Neo-liberalism is theft: the case of Cameroon By Lumumba Chia and Shawn Hattingh

                                   

By Lumumba Chia and Shawn Hattingh

The Empire and its accompanying multinational companies have been running a brutal swindle in Cameroon. Their swindle has revolved around imposing neo-liberal capitalism onto the country so that they could loot it. In true racketeering style, the multinational corporations that have benefited from this scam have been given free reign: they are allowed to buy what they want, sell what they want, fire workers at will, and move their money in and out of the country’s borders. The man that the Empire has chosen as the local face of this racket is Paul Biya, who has been the President of the Cameroon for 27 years. Biya and his cronies - who make up the government - regularly appear in the public arena in jazzy Armani suits, donning broad smiles and using soothing words to sell the Empire’s racket to the people. In doing so, they have often assured the people that capitalism really works and that the multinational companies operating in the country are there to help the poor. Of course, most people don’t buy the garbage that Paul Biya – and his bosses in Washington, Paris, Brussels, the IMF and World Bank – churn out about capitalism being their savour. This is because they know the Empire’s racket is an attack on them – they feel it everyday. In fact, the people of Cameroonare now poorer than at anytime in their history and the environment is on the verge of collapse.  As a result, Cameroonhas become a site of intense resistance with people defending their interests against the neo-liberal onslaught through strikes, demonstrations and riots.

How the racket works

The sad reality is that Cameroon has a long history of being pillaged. From the 1500s onwards, empires grew rich from exploiting its people and resources through colonialism and slavery. Formal political independence brought little relief: local elites simply emerged and enriched themselves by collaborating with new imperial powers, like the United States (US), to keep the pillaging going. By the 1980s, however

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Issa Bakary Tchiroma and the Talibanization of Government Communication

                                                             By Ntemfac Ofege.

Basic. The prime duty of government is to provide services. Whenever government fails to provide services, the citizenry resorts to all manner of ways including criticisms on radio and in newspapers, uprisings and coup d’états to abrogated predatory and failed governments.

Basic. The gramophone. Described as a willful artifact capable of producing sound of often dubious quality. A trademark of the gramophone: His Master’s voice. Whenever the pin of the gramophone got stuck, the instrument produced plenty of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The production of plenty of sound and fury is called noise. Cameroon’s current Minister of Communications, the esteemed Issa Tchiroma Bakary sounds like the final gramophone.

 

Cameroon: Partnership to Revive Powerful Newspaper Chain

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       BUSINESS PROFILE

UMI publishing department is an adaptation of the modus operandi of most newspaper structures in the United States (Gannett Co (USA-today), Knight-Ridder (Philadelphia Inquirer), Times Mirror (Newsday), Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal-Daily news), etc). Our vision is to set up a newspaper chain that has great dominance and presence in the local market but adapted in mission and vision to our reality especially in programs, the manner of generating income and executing expenditure.

Whereas operating in a rich and highly industrialized milieu, newspapers in the USA would count on support from viable local industries through grants, adverts, messages etc, our newspapers must count on sales first before adverts and other commercial functions.  

Our argument is that those we target are so poor and readership so low that all newspapers must first invest in creating its own readership.  Eventually we intend to count heavily on local enterprises to take up advertisement slots in our newspapers for their messages.

From desk and field market research carried out on 10 existing newspapers, we believe that there is a considerable business potential in the newspaper business. In particular one important segment of that market, the business, development partnership and informal sector that have clear needs to present and promote their businesses have not been properly targeted by existing newspapers.

 

Cameroon: Partnership Opportunity to Set up Christian Broadcasting and Business Radio-tv Network

United Media Incorporated-CIG also has as mission to set up, own and manage the City Business Network, CBN Radio with stations in Bamenda, Douala, Limbe, Maroua, Yaounde, etc. and eventually a TV Station. We believe that investing in broadcasting can create an additional training outlet for individual and group (female) empowerment in the communications industry. Eventually our broadcast media will best tackle the issues that create poverty in Cameroon – a weak and unfair almost failed state, marginalisation and unequal access to resources, unfair accumulation and distribution of wealth, unequal access to training, jobs and finance, exploitative social relations, incompetent male political representation, etc.

UMI-CIG communication structures and infrastructure must be committed to combating poverty, HIV-AIDS, protecting the environment, preaching the word, sustainable management of natural resources, gender issues, human and child rights, good governance and democracy, in short, development.

Contact for Partnership

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

 CONTACT PERSON:

NTEMFAC ALOYSIUS NKONG OFEGE.

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda.Cameroon.

ntemfacofege@yahoo.com, ntemfacnchwete@walla.com, ntemfac@gmail.com

(237) 77 86 12 00.

www.postwatchmagazine.com. 

Cameroon: Partnership Opportunity In Media Development - Douala, Bamenda

Mission Statement 

                                                 

United Media Incorporated-Common Interest Group was created in 1994 by a group of journalists, bankers, sociologists, and communications and rural development experts, lawyers, etc.

The CIG was formally recognised in 2000, per Cameroon Law, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Cooperatives and Common Interest Groups.  

The objective to invent a veritable independent, plural, bilingual, non-partisan, non-sectarian, Christian, community-based, development-oriented and very dynamic communications industry in Cameroon.

Our idea is to start with training and then deploy into viable bilingual newspapers, radio, film production, TV and other communications infrastructure in Cameroon.

Consequently, UMI-CIG is sourcing for partners worldwide to set up a communications heavy training institute - the Community Development Polytechnic.

This professional school be open to all (especially the girl child) and shall offer Certificate, Diploma and Higher Diploma courses in the following:

PAT        PATHWAYS

The Department of Communications.  offering: Journalism (Newspaper, Radio and Television journalism), Corporate Communications and Information and Communication Technology.

The Department of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technology offering: New Information Technologies, Emailing, Web mastering, Software, Hardware  maintenance, programming, Bureautics, Secretarial Duties.

The Department of Corporate Communications offering: Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, Management, Business Administration

The Department of Mass Communications offering: Mass Communications, Health, Rights and Human Rights, Science and Technology, Politics with Media Studies, Arts and Culture, Environment, Sports, Education, Economy and Finance, reporting

The Department of Film production and Media Technology offering: Film and Media Studies, Performance language, Script writing, Directing, Acting, Special Effects, Camera, Sound and Sound Effects. 

UMI-CIG communications structures and infrastructure must be committed to combating poverty, HIV-AIDS, protecting the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, gender issues, human and child rights, good governance and democracy, in short, development.

Contacts for Greater Details

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

 CONTACT PERSON:

NTEMFAC ALOYSIUS NKONG OFEGE

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda. Cameroon.

ntemfacofege@yahoo.com, ntemfacnchwete@walla.com, ntemfac@gmail.com

(237) 77 86 12 00

www.postwatchmagazine.com

Moving United Media Incorporated Common Interest Group Forward

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

UMI-CIG sincerely gives special thanks to all those who have participated in one way or the other in the realisation of its activities aimed at building a civil and just society. We pay tribute to UMI-CIG staff and all its volunteers who have been working under very difficult conditions and with little motivation to ensure that we keep to our strategic goals.

We expressed our sincere gratitude to the following for their assistance: MASHAV, the Embassy of Israel in Cameroon and the Weitz Centerfor Development Studies for helping us with the feasibility plans of the Community Development Polytechnic, the City Business Network radio and  the City-tv as wee as the micro-finance house. We are also grateful to MASHAV for their assistance in proposal writing.

We are grateful to the African Investment Corporation, Dla an affiliate of the Hoffmann Foundation, for their help and assistance, Jimbimedia in the United Statesfor setting up the website on www.postwatchmagazine.com.  These people have been a veritable source of inspiration to UMI.

We equally thank them for constantly advising and giving practical suggestions on how we can better work with them and achieve our aims.

The time has now come to move UMI-CIG Forward. Our priority projects for the next 09 months are the following:

1. The installation of the Community Development Polytechnic;

2. The installation of CBN and City-tv;

3. The start-up of the micro-finance house.

Interested investors can contact us at unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com

Humbly Submitted

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege

Delegate

Interview with Cameroon Movies Marketing Corporation on Film, To Kill a Killer

Ntemfac Ofege's interview

Mr. Ntemfac Ofege, journalist and film maker talks to CMMC's Denis A must read interview!  CMMC: Hello Sir, this is CMMC, Camer Movies Marketing Corporation. We are a young private owned company promoting Cameroon’s film industry. It’s a great honor for us to interview you. Please kindly introduce yourself to our readers.   Ntemfac Ofege: My name is Ntemfac Aloysius Nkong Nchwete Ofege. Long names run in my family.  I was born on June 26th 1962 at the Bamenda General Hospital. My father came from Dschang in the Western province of Cameroon to settle in West Cameroon. My mother is Jukun. Her family came from the Takum-Wukari-Sunkuru area of Northern Nigeria to create the Ndaka-Gidajukun chieftaincy in the Ako-Misaje area of today’s Donga and Mantung Division. The current Kru or Chief of Naka is my uncle. I guess you can say that I am a child of different worlds. I attended primary school at the All Saints School, Bayelle, Nkwen in Bamenda; secondary school at Sacred Heart College, Mankon; high school at the Cameroon College of Arts, Sciences and Technology, CCAST-Bambili, where, believe it or not, I majored in Biology, Chemistry and Geology.   CMMC: Sorry for cutting in Sir, just to mention I am an ex-student of CCAST Bambili too. Ride on with your introduction Sir.    N.O: The opportunities opened to English-speaking Geology students after high school have always been limited. Geology majors from CCAST have always faced the dilemma of braving the hostile cursus of the university system in Cameroon which, across the board, was never conceived to accommodate the critical aspects of the education system that obtains in the English speaking provinces. That is why most graduates from the high school system in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon have either had to change course or flee abroad to continue their education.

Book Review: Hot Water for the Famous Seven by Ntemfac Ofege. Reviewed by Kini Nsom

ISBN 9789956558391 | 180 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback. Illustrated.  $18.95.

Available from Amazon.com, African Book Collective, Langaa.com, Alibris, etc.

C heery boarding school stories, like hot furnace love tales, are often hilarious, similar and hearty. In fact, tales about renegade schoolboys, in potent fictional boarding schools, threatening college procedures and giving long-suffering discipline masters, headmasters and principals migraines, are totemic to all cultures, colour and creed. The difference, however, may just be in style. While the daredevil schoolboy in an imaginary school in Kent would set up some rocket propulsion device under the chair of the meddlesome discipline master and then stand back to watch the master become take off to the moon, the African creature in some ramshakled school in outback Mungong (no roads, no bridges) in Cameroon would conceal some sharp bamboo objects inside the discipline master’s seat. The result, I bet, is the same.

Hot Water for the Famous Seven

is a galvanic attempt by a Cameroonian writer to recount the drama and hair-raising moments in an existing Cameroonian all-boys boarding school. Picture the situation. A bunch of mischievous renegades in Form 1A, foxes all of them, with outrageously bushy tails to boot, have the radioactive cheek to gallivant about Sacred Heart College calling themselves the Famous Seven. As if that is not mortifying enough, these arrogant little confederates have the tendency of threatening and even bringing down time-tested and firmly established college rules, regulations and procedures with reckless abandon. The little rascals—Mozarts in football and streaks of lightning all of them—even have the effrontery to provoke retribution by belting their seniors—the semi-foxes of Form 2, in a rousing football encounter. But, when the Famous Seven break bounds and sneak out of campus, going after the most eloquent of all infernos, Bamanga Njuma of the Fifth, conveniently decked in his father’s army garb—spivishly borrowed—the principal of the college, Brother Hugh McGregor Jones, blows his top. “Enough is enough,” the principal bellows with stentorian alacrity.

 

(Book Review) Hot Water for the Famous Seven by Ntemfac Ofege

Ntemfac Ofege. Hot Water for the Famous Seven. Langaa publishers, 2008. 180 pages. Available from African Books Collective and Amazon.com

  A bunch of mischievous renegades in Form 1A, foxes all of them, with outrageously bushy tails to boot, have the radioactive cheek to gallivant about Sacred Heart College calling themselves the Famous Seven. As if that is not mortifying enough, these arrogant little confederates have the tendency of threatening and even bringing down time-tested and firmly established college rules, regulations and procedures with reckless abandon. The little rascals—Mozarts in football and streaks of lightning all of them—even have the effrontery to provoke retribution by belting their seniors—the semi-foxes of Form 2, in a rousing football encounter.

But, when the Famous Seven break bounds and sneak out of campus, going after the most eloquent of all infernos, Bamanga Njuma of the Fifth, conveniently decked in his father’s army garb—spivishly borrowed—the principal of the college, Brother Hugh McGregor Jones, blows his top. “Enough is enough,” the principal bellows with stentorian alacrity.

Book Review II: Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) by Ntemfac Ofege

Originally Published in Summit Magazine no. 006

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege. Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits). Langaa Publishers. November, 2007. 360 pages (Paperback). Available from Amazon.com ($24.95) and African Books Collective (£19.95)

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege forays into the customs and traditions of the Bakweri people, the often unfathomable dwellers of the lands below the Fako Mountain (Mount Cameroon), to put together a story that is beautiful in content, flowing in style, enthralling in meanders, fetching in intrigue and ethereal in plot. The plot of this book is bustling, fascinating and lingering. This page-turner keeps the reader wondering what next.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirit) is the story of an exquisite, yet lethal, water spirit or mermaid. This preternatural creature takes on human form and comes to the land to do battle against an equally lethal cult – the Nyongo. Namondo uses her singular power – the magic ring of the water spirits to prevail. The maiden is, however, killed in the process. The ring of the liengu-la-mwanja must return to her son.

The Time is Now Speech by Carlson Anyangwe, president BSCRG

Herewith a powerful discours by Prof. Carlson Anyangwe. President British Southern Cameroons

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Book Review: Namondo Child of the Water Spirits) by Ntemfac Ofege

Originally Published in The Post Newspaper

Every one hundred years, or so, a book bursts unto the global readership and stays there for the next one thousand years and more. Ntemfac A.N. Ofege's Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) is just that kind of book.

Ripe with transfigurations and transformations, this novel promises to be a spirited and lingering read for all those who navigate multiple cultures, languages, times and geographies.

How the immortal gods meddle in the affairs of men has always provided ambrosial reading.

Authors like Homer, who recounted such stories acquired immortality in their own right. It all starts in the beginning: "Chaos reigned in the firmament, until the ageless spirit Ovase Lova breathed and created dawn. Stars from his fingertips jeweled the heavens and newborn planets radiated throughout the vast universe."

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s “To Kill a Killer”: Now Proposed to National and International Audiences

Yaounde – The reviews after a few sneak previews of Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s "To Kill a Killer" are rave, almost delirious.

"I personally liked the intrigue of the film, its sound and picture quality and the directing," says Mr. Amadou Vamoulke, the General Manager of the Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation, CRTV.

"To Kill a Killer"

"To Kill a Killer,"

The Inner Circle is a vile occultic society, which circles dines on flesh and blood.

Beware of Paul Biya the Consommate Manipulator

Beware of Paul Biya - the Consummate Manipulator

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege

The Contentious Article 6:2

Article 6 of Cameroon’s 1996 Constitution states:

(1) The President of the Republic shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast through direct, equal and secret universal suffrage.

(2) The President of the Republic shall be elected for a term of office of 7 (seven) years. He shall be eligible for re-election once.

Ntemfac A. N Ofege's New Book: Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits)

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege. Namondo. Child of the Water Spirits. Bamenda, Langaa publishers. November 2007. Available from Michigan State University Press and Amazon.com

The river gods dispatch Namondo, a liengu-la-mwanja or water spirit, to the land.  Mission : waste a deadly cult. The twin uses her magic ring to accomplish her task, but tragedy strikes at the last minute. The fearsome ring of the river must return to her son.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) is a refreshingly different take of the perpetual battle between the good, the bad and the ugly.

Namondo’s story races, twists, turns and jumps from one emotion to another until the chilling conflagration on a bewitched train. This is mythology so vivid that it hums with life: powerfully descriptive, awesome, frightening, compelling, delightful, imaginative, penetrating and lingering.

The magic about Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s impressive narration is this confident ability to weave such a sprightly tale, one combining yesterday and today; the dead and the living; tradition and modernity; scoundrel and righteous deities. Throughout the story, the reader will taste that uproarious extravaganza of Africa- vicious serpents and elephant-doubles.  Namond0 (Child of the Water Spirits) is simply a beautiful story well told.

Move over Things Fall Apart. Here comes the next generation of African writing.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) can be ordered online.