Day & night in limbo
By: Jean Tardif Lonkog
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9789956792627
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social conditions; Biography
Other titles: Day and night in limbo
Description: With humour, insight and irony, Lonkog recounts the joys and contradictions of daily life in a Northern Cameroon village. Living in Carrefour Poli in Northern Cameroon as never easy. How far will one have to go for drinking water during the dry season? Will there be money for kerosene to fill the lamp tank? For batteries for the torch? For a bowl of corn to make "fufu" for the family? Will there be a night encounter with the poison of a snake or scorpion? The man of Carrefour Poli imagines when he last had a bottle of beer and when he will next have another. Children sit in class staring at the teacher, while their work suffers. People sit under trees for shade only to cut them down for firewood. Ministers run up and down, working very hard and sweating, but little changes. Day and night people turn around on the same spot. It takes a long time to build a nation. Everything is in limbo. -- back cover.