APORIA: LAMENT OF AN AMBAZONIAN REVOLUTIONARY
By Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta
Aporia is a long prose poem that makes a case for the Ambazonian Revolution. It is my conviction that the task of the genuine intellectual is to speak up when no one dares to speak. When we draw a blank and cannot make sense of the events that have deeply perturbed our lives, we have recourse to the plume in a bid to externalize pent-up emotions. The impetus to write Aporia stemmed from the ongoing genocide in Cameroon; a civil war viewed by domestic and international observers as a by-product of the linguistic genocide, dysfunctional governance, lethal tribalism, brazen kleptomania and the deleterious governmental ineptitude that epitomize the body politic of the Republic of Cameroon. Each verse in the poem is an expression of the poet's frustration and anger in face of injustice that Anglophone Cameroonians have been the bullseye for decades.
Ces poèmes sont plus dits que lus, plus criés que psalmodiés,
plus proférés et c’est cela leur beauté. De livre en livre, Peter
Vakunta s’est inventé un langage qui lui est propre, entre le
français et l’anglais, entre le camfranglais et le majunga talk,
pour décrire et expliquer en des poèmes bilingues, la réalité de
ce pays qui, enfant déjà, dans son premier cours de français, l’a
mis au dernier banc et qui, aujourd’hui encore ne s’est pas sorti de cette injustice multiforme qu’il commet sur ceux qu’il appelle ‘les Anglophones’.
(Dr. Patrice Nganang, Professor of Cultural Studies &
Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University, New York,
USA)
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