Godfrey Tangwa AKA "Rotcod Gobata": Gobata

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Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Gobata)
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Bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
Canute - Chronicles from the Heartland
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CARDINAL TUMI’S EPISTLE TO THIEVES

I did not read Christian Cardinal Tumi’s letter to the Douala administrative authorities on the subject of the commandement operationel, which seems to have drawn from some quarters the absurd charge that the cardinal is a friend and supporter of robbers. But I did listen with rapt attention to the cardinal’s open letter to all thieves and hardened criminals, as read over the Catholic programme on CRTV last Sunday, 27^th August 2000. From this letter I got a good gist of what the earlier letter was about.

Ave Verum Corpus, K.618: Six Versions

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November 19, 2004 at 08:21 PM in Gobata - In the Spirit of Gobata | Permalink | Comments (0)

WHAT IS CARDINAL TUMI’S BUSINESS IN THIS BEPANDA YOUTHS AFFAIR?

Yes, you heard me correctly. I am not in the habit of speaking with water in my mouth. I am asking what Christian Cardinal Tumi’s business is in this affair of the 9 missing youths of Bepanda? What is the business of a wifeless, childless man in the fate of 9 obscure children missing in an obscure part of a big city like Douala?

I am not asking this question to the cardinal although he is free to answer it, if he wants. But I am not even interested in the answer. I know that an adequate answer exists and I can even give myself a fair chance of being able to guess it correctly. I am not interested in the answer. I am only interested in the question.

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November 19, 2004 at 08:20 PM in Gobata - In the Spirit of Gobata | Permalink | Comments (0)

A BIG MAN IS A BIG MAN(But small men don’t know)

(THE POST, No. 176, May 26, 2000)

A big man is a big man, and all big men know it very well. Of course, a small man is also a small man, but small men don’t seem to know it. You may already be complaining that ‘what about women?’ I am not a male chauvinist. I sincerely believe in the equality of all human beings, irrespective of gender and other particularizing characteristics, although my arguments in favour of female empowerment are often misunderstood by both men and women. The problem is this English language I am using. The English language thinks that ‘man’ includes ‘woman’ whereas the contrary is evidently the case. (Wo)man includes man but not the other way round. See what I mean?