Stranger in his homeland
By: Linus T. Asong
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9789956616466
Subjects: Chiefdoms; Fiction; African fiction (English)
Other titles: Project Muse UPCC books
Description: Stranger in His Homeland completes the long-awaited trilogy of Linus Asong's fictitious village of Nkokonoko Small Monje, separately treated in The Crown of Thorns and its sequel A Legend of the Dead. However, it leads us back not to events after A Legend of the Dead, but to the crisis that created the passionately exciting The Crown of Thorns. Honest, enthusiastic, arrogant and self-righteous, Antony Nkoaleck, the first graduate of his tribe means well. But his society, entrenched in corruption, sees things differently and therefore judges him according to its own norms. Just one or two errors on Antony's part are enough to cost him his job with the government, the coveted throne of Nkokonoko Small Monje, and finally his life. It is a sad story, strongly reminiscent of Myshkin's fate in Dostoevysky's novel The Idiot, a story in which the Russian novelist vividly shows the inability of any man to bear the burden of moral perfection in an imperfect world.
Notes: Originally published: Bamenda : Patron Publishing House, 2007.