Research Catalog
Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise
- Title
- Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise [electronic resource] / Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
- Author
- Vakunta, Peter W.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
- Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 61 pages))
- Summary
- "Using linguistic stylings as subversive as the messages nestled between the lines, Vakunta's Requiem for Ongola in Camfranglais: Cameroonian poetics presents a scathing critique of the corruption of democracy into "democraziness" running rampant in the "Sick Man of Africa". Written in Camfranglais, this is resistance poetry at its best: 'tokking' through the mouth of the voiceless", the author pulls no punches in condemning the country's roi faineant, the perverted acceptance of feymania, the reduction of the national Constitution into toilet paper, and the general climate of impunity that has created an atmosphere of frustration and hopelessness. Calling upon the redeeming power of the Word - "Speak truth!" - these verses deftly navigate through the multilingual lexicon of a new, African hybrid language, providing an insider's account of the real stakes at hand in Ongola, the Ewondo word for Yaounde."
- Uniform Title
- Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise (Online)
- Subject
- Cameroon > Politics and government > 1982- > Poetry
- Note
- Poems.
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC
- ssj0001466388
- Author
- Vakunta, Peter W.
- Title
- Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise [electronic resource] / Peter Wuteh Vakunta.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 9789956792917