Concealing three computers in my small carryon luggage, I expected to have problems when I reached my final destination, Cameroon. Instead before I even boarded the plane in Seattle, the woman at the United counter threatened to send my suitcase through as luggage if it didn’t comply to size regulation. After repacking, stuffing my shoulder bag […]
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
The seventies in New York City was the showplace for new wave foreign cinema and I became an avid film buff, dropping names like Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Truffaut and Goddard. The other day as I was walking up the dusty dirt road in Fundong, watching small children carry plastic containers of stream water on their […]
A Short Fairy Tale
Once upon a time in an African country, there was a lord who lived in a white castle on the top of a mountain. He was the child of two religions, Christian and Muslim, his mother was a Kom princess and his Fulani father, was a small land owner. Our lord was a self made […]
Working with adversity
Almost any time of day while I am sitting at my laptop in my tiny unfurnished house, the electric is shutting down and my fluorescent bulb blinks on and off. I finally put a flashlight next to my computer so I don’t fumble around in the dark . Yesterday the power went off at 1 […]