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Pentecostal Hubris as Parable for the Theatre

  • BATE BESONG
    BATE BESONG
    is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Critical Theory, University of Buea, Cameroon (1999-), with focus on Cameroon Literature, Theory and History of African Literature, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Play Production. He has a PhD from the University of...
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Abstract

The Convert
by Francis Nyamnjoh
Mmegi Publishing House, 2003, 44pp, ISBN 99912-525-0-9

Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s academic and creative itinerary has embraced a wide range of subjects and moods. The topography of Mind Searching (Kucena 1991) and its sequel, The Disillusioned African (Nooremac Press 1995), for instance, fundamentally explore fragmented landscapes in which ethnic consciousness, bigotry, exclusivist sentiments and narrowminded irredentism have become the determinants of an evolving material culture. These abnormalities have given rise to the institutional and systemic defacements ingrained in the aberrant mode of national intercourse and further adumbrated by sham democratization circuses that have brought massive concussions to the aboriginal, neo-colonial Cameroonian state structure. The lack of vision of successive francophone leaders and their legendary obduracy to utilize the gifts and gains of Re-Unification have rendered the federation artificial in structure and content. Clearly, then, the idealism of Re-Unification has been imprisoned in an imploding time-capsule.

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Theatre Parable Pentecostal Hubris

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  • BATE BESONG

    is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Critical Theory, University of Buea, Cameroon (1999-), with focus on Cameroon Literature, Theory and History of African Literature, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Play Production. He has a PhD from the University of Calabar (Nigeria) and has published extensively on Anglophone Cameroonian drama.

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