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Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise

Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise

Vakunta, Peter Wuteh

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ISBN10: 9956792918
ISBN13: 9789956792917
Publisher: Langaa RPCID
Published: Feb 2 2015
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: French
Using linguistic stylings as subversive as the messages nestled between the lines, Vakunta's Requiem for Ongola in Camfranglais: Cameroonian poetics presents a scathing critique of the corruption of democracy into democraziness running rampant in the Sick Man of Africa. Written in Camfranglais, this is resistance poetry at its best: 'tokking' through the mouth of the voiceless, the author pulls no punches in condemning the country's roi fainéant, the perverted acceptance of feymania, the reduction of the national Constitution into toilet paper, and the general climate of impunity that has created an atmosphere of frustration and hopelessness. Calling upon the redeeming power of the Word - Speak truth! - these verses deftly navigate through the multilingual lexicon of a new, African hybrid language, providing an insider's account of the real stakes at hand in Ongola, the Ewondo word for Yaoundé.

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