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WHAT GOD HAS PUT ASUNDERBook Review: What God Has Put Asunder by Victor Epie Ngome (Spear Books, 2021, 80 pp. Paperback $18.00. ISBN 978-1942876809) Reviewer: Peter Wuteh Vakunta, Ph.D. Ngome’s fictional work titled What God Has Put Asunder is a parody of a contemporary... RED-LIGHT DISCTRICT (Poem)By Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta What’s in a name? Everything is in a name. As old as Eve, Names are legion— Red-light District. What’s in this nomenclature? Brothel, Ho-house, Ass-house, House of joy. Who’s a whore? Ass-peddler, Call girl, Flesh... RAP ON NOMEMCLATUREBY PROFESSOR PETER WUTEH VAKUNTA What’s in a name?/ There’s nothing more important/ Than a person’s name!/ Is man a counterfeit?/ The problem is we toy Too much with names!/ Oftentimes for flimsy reasons./ People are no longer happy/ With... UBUNTUBy Professor Peter Vakunta Hip! Hip! Hooray!/ I sing UBUNTU!/ I sing HARAMBE!/ I sing UJAMMA/ I sing MASAKHANE!/ I sing AFRITUDE!/ I sing African Renaissance! Hip! Hip! Hooray!/ I ain't no arbiter of alien designs/ Offspring of universal symbiosis/... TCHOKOBy Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta Some sick dong kam for Kamerun Yi bad sotai taim no dei,. Da sick dem di call’am sei tchoko. Tchoko na popo come no go! All Camers dem dong katch da sick! Dem daso tchoko,... Linguistic Decolonization in Camfranglais Literature: A Pedagogical PerspectiveBy Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta Introduction The distinctive feature of Cameroonian literature written in Camfranglais is authors’ recourse to linguistic decolonization as a narrative mode. An incontrovertible manifestation of linguistic variance in contemporary Cameroonian literature resides in ... Exegesis, Jugglery, Cultural and Semantic Signification in Translating Camfranglais LiteratureProfessor Peter Wuteh Vakunta Introduction If up to a certain point, fiction writers have to re-invent language in a bid to appeal to a broader readership, the situation of Camfranglais writers is peculiar in that for them, French is not... Anatomy of African Bush-fallersBy Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta INTRODUCTION Who is a bush-faller? In Standard English, the term ‘bush-faller’ refers to a person who fells or cuts down trees in the bush for timber. In Cameroonian Pidgin English and Camfranglaish, this term harbors... MAKWEREKWERE TRUMPETERSBy Professor Peter Vakunta To conjecture the hurt And pain and havoc that this word 'makwerekwere' has wreaked in South Africa, One needs to live there! As pressure mounts on the Azanian political elite To fulfill the post-apartheid promises Made... Nyamfuka Government in KamerunBy Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta Introduction Since his accession to power in 1982, the Nyamfuka residing at Etoudi has deemed it expedient to surround himself with a bulwark of nyamfuka-[i] minions culled from his own ethnic group, the Beti tribe,... |
