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Winston Churchill stated: “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
And Edgar Allen Poe asked: “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” How do I consider Cameroon, my home? And how do I contemplate Africa? |
Should I construct my own, pithy, vague pronouncement? I could assert that Africa is a tangle of paradoxes. Such a declaration hints at the truth, for the soils of Africa seem to nurture warlords and warrior children as well as people quick to smile and laugh and rejoice.
Warrior at Heart is not a pithy pronouncement that seeks to encapsulate a country or a continent. And it is not a scholarly undertaking; an attempt to comprehend through quantification.
It is the story of my boyhood and my seminal manhood and it is a story that tells of my journey to America, of trying to negotiate Boston and of trying to renegotiate the sensibilities I acquired in the Village of Kob—so that I could thrive in “this brave, new world that has such people in’t.”
It is a story that tells of the smoky, mad chaos of Civil War, of the unadulterated pleasures of boyhood, of the wisdom of the elders, and of the inevitable embarrassments of the passage to manhood. It doesn’t pretend to be more than one person’s story, but in each person’s story is every person’s story.
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The Mysterious Virtues
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The Mysterious Virtues of Paul Abanda is a true story that discloses some extraordinary and astonishing anomalies of African Indigenes. Today, many Africans live in a world that delivers starvation, wars, diseases, and other inveterate socioeconomic, political, and cultural turmoil. |
However, not long ago, chiefdom was the local law and ruled the larger world. Village elders talked in tongues that brought death, happiness, life, lightning, and storms. Although curse and sorcery are still practiced in some parts of Africa, much of what was seems lost. This story attempts to retake some of the abandoned culture through stories of actual events, real but often unexplainable.
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The continent of Africa still stands in a state of unrest. Centuries of colonization, imperialism and slavery have left the continent hanging on to stability by a thread. Constantly shifting political regimes, tribal conflicts, starvation, drought and high mortality rates keep the area from advancing. |
In the first book by Tata Thaddeus Agwo, Journey from Africa to America (now available through 1stBooks Library) he addresses the traumatic experience of severed familial bonds and high teenage mortality rates in his homeland of Cameroon.
Manga is a teenager growing up after a long separation from his parents since age three. Upon his return, several years later, he is not a "normal" adolescent. His father soon passes away leaving his mother with the difficult task of caring for six children on her own. However, the behavioral problems Manga exhibits drives his mother to the edge as she realizes she will never be able to raise him properly. Turning to the classroom for help, Manga is sent into a transformation during his teenage years that will render him scarred for the rest of his life.
Agwo follows the successes and failures of Manga as he moves from tumultuous Cameroon of the late 1980s to Boston. The social and economic problems he faces in both countries can be "directly linked to the absence of a paternal bond at an early age," and it culminates with a chase down the highway involving 20 Massachusetts troopers.
A "high energy thriller," Journey from Africa to America shows the difficulty faced for indigenous African teenagers to survive under extreme and unusual conditions in Africa and the United States.
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