Day and Night in Limbo Jean Tardif Lonkog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonkog, Jean Tardif, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lonkog, Jean Tardif--Biography.

Carrefour Poli (Cameroon)--Social conditions.

Carrefour Poli (Cameroon).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Chapter 1 - Go or Stay?; Chapter 2 - Arrival in Carrefour Poli; Chapter 3 - Life without Electricity; Chapter 4 - Living without Water; Chapter 5 - Government School Carrefour Poli and Peoples' Mentality towards Education; Chapter 6 - The People and their Livelihood; Chapter 7 - The People, Health Care and Nutrition; Chapter 8 - Marriage and the Family; Chapter 9 - Coping with High Temperatures; Chapter 10 - Ritualistic Circumcision; Chapter 11 - Surviving in the Midst of Snakes

Chapter 12 - The Millennium Development Goals and their Attainment in Carrefour Poli, other villages in Cameroon and Africaas a WholeChapter 13 - The Emergence of Carrefour Poli, the Emergence of Cameroon, the Emergence of Africa; Chapter 14 - Conclusion; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956792290

9956792292

OCLC:

933515848