WIT

Wisdom for the Wisdomites

F To the world, you may be one person but to one person you are the world.

F Do not cry because it is over but smile because it happens.

F Never frown even when you are sad, because you never know who is in love with your smile.

F To succeed, do not follow the bandwagon, go where people are going.

F A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities while an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

F Failure does not mean that you have failed; it just means you have not succeeded yet (Robert Schuller).

F Our main mission is not to see what lays dimly at a distance but what lays clearly at hand.

F If you don’t leave yesterday alone for today you will not live long enough to see your tomorrow.

F Today well lived, makes yesterday a happy dream and tomorrow a happy vision.

F Learn to live just till bedtime for everyday is a new life to a Wise man.

F If your children are not better than you are, then you have fathered them in vain.

POETRY CORNER

The Sounds of Smile

Shh!! Did you hear that sound?

It was the MP and his Mistress in a jeep

They headed for Hilton Hotel for the intoxicating

bottle of castle milk stout

Such hollow sound, it was of laughter, newfound.

Was it the unscrupulous money-possessed Landlord

Who sits in his thorn-breeding cushion and rancorously laugh?

But the exploited tenant boy too shall laugh

And in the Landlord a Nebuchadnezzar shall emerge.

Oh! Is it the ungrateful grade I teacher

Who with leper-chalked fingers points at his misery?

The AIDS-orphaned child wails; “I am hungry”,

Being dumped and marginalized by the society.

Was it the dutiful but miserable mother and the devoted housewife

Who screams in the hands of a perverted drunk husband?

Helpless screaming girl whose clitoris is being yanked,

In the name of tradition and maintaining her paper-white?

Did you see the trader and big tycoon?

They sigh under the heavy and crippling tax toll,

And some are sycophants amassing their usurious wealth.

And the hunch-back wrinkled old woman,

Like chain gang silently toils.

The mad Mr. Anybody shakes his head and smiles:

“There is no hope for hopeless and the hopeful,

The cycle keeps on going round and like a rainbow too.

I have already resigned to my fate

And you can only hear my smile”

BEHOLD! I

Here I Come

He sailed for the unknown and psychological bliss,

Suicidal if not death-kissing.

In every heart must be a silent peace,

A loving peace and worth-cherishing.

In every mortal, a sun shines,

A sun that must have crossed through thick and thin,

A never setting sun of sweet wine,

A sun that forever lingers within.

Behold! An enchanted land of the achu eaters,

Is the dream of the hospitalised wanderer,

Where the golden winter languishes the harmattan

And in the amused eye is wonder.

Apportioned to every heart

Is a balmised all-knowing Angel;

Where one must possess a manly heart

To see King Solomon’s colours in such an Angel.

BEHOLD! II

BROKEN VOW

When the natural clock chimes,

There is an unexpected U-turn,

Vows with the gods and psychology

Are forgotten and a return to the alma mater.

The hurt of the past distorts

The joy of the present and unveils

The bleakness of a dark pool in the future

Where uncertainty looms...

That future of today sees the sun

And the horizon of bliss is an unputdownable

Evergreen forest of petals, depicting

Such an irresistible mermaid that beckons

With a subtle and coy smile.

Behold! The angel strikes with Moses’ rock

And the gauged heart is erased without defects.

In such emotional bliss, the prickly thorns are

Left behind, as a happy tomorrow is painstakingly constructed

Local News

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE STORIES (Retrospection)

(Courtesy HOT VIBES and QUARTIER NEWS)

BOY MAKES LOVE TO A PYTHON IN THE TO APYTHON IN THE TOILET

A tenant boy was caught by his Landlady, making love to a python. This incident took place in Muyuka, in South West Region of Cameroon, Central Africa. The said Landlady returned from the farm and so decided to ease herself in the toilet, to her dismay, she saw her tenant making love to (with) a python. This woman screamed as she saw the snake around the boy’s nudity and their mouths closed in what one can imagine.

When the people forced the door open, they only found the boy nude and asleep with an empty bucket before him. Close sources said that each time the boy goes to the toilet; he spends more than an hour in the bathroom.

WOMAN TRANSFORMS TO AN ANTELOPE

Still in Muyuka, a hunter shut a woman transformed into an antelope. When all

Her attempts to retrieve the heart of the antelope proved futile, she promised war to the hunter, only to be discovered dead two days later on her way back from the farm.

MAN IN POLICE CUSTODY AFTER TRANSFORMING TO A PYTHON

In another development, an old man is under police custody after transforming into a

Python, in a neighbour’s house. He went into this house, undressed before transforming to a python, and a five-year-old boy saw this python and collapsed. His family embarked on prayers until the next morning when on opening the door, they saw a half python with a man’s chest and head. When he completed transforming to human form, he was naked, without his manhood and performed some rituals before gaining back his manhood where he was taken to the police station by the local people.

A 19 YEAR OLD BOY RAPED A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD

In South West Region, in a “quartier” known as Malende, a 19-year-old boy named Marcel was caught raping a one year old. He was caught pants down by some women frying garri in the neighbourhood.

According to these women, they got unusual shrieks from the baby and decided to find out, only to discover Marcel struggling to penetrate the baby. These women pounced on the boy, and he was later taken to the quarter head while the baby was taken to the hospital.

MARKET TRANSFORMED TO SEX SHOP BY DELINQUENTS

In another development, some young delinquents in that town have transformed the

Malende market into a sex market. Early in the mornings, traders and business people, in the course of cleaning the market sweep hundreds of used condoms.

AN OLD MAN MAKES LOVE TO 14-YEAR-OLD STEPDAUGHTER

This time in Likomba, Tiko, South West Region of Cameroon, an old man is on the run after

he was caught red-handed making love to his stepdaughter. This man, Fabian, was caught

by his wife who have been hinted about this affair by neighbours.

This man has beaten his wife until she was hospitalised after a quarrel over his abandonment of their little baby. This man took advantage of his wife’s absence and forced her 14 year old daughter to bed. This girl, Mevis, confessed that they have made love four times. Nothing has been done to this girl, whereas the adulterous, incestuous and rapist father has disappeared into thin air.

PRESBYTERIAN WOMAN GOES MAD AFTER PARTAKING IN A CATHOLIC COMMUNION SERVICE

A woman is roaming the streets of Pendamboko, in South West Region, after it was alleged that she partake in a communion service in a catholic church.

This woman attended a funeral mass and during sacrament, she also received Holy Communion and since then has not been herself. While people say she did not receive the communion with a “clean heart”, others say as a Presbyterian Christian, she was not supposed to receive it at all. When she was taken to the Reverend father of the church for confession and atonement, the man of God asked her family to take her to the Presbyterian Pastor for prayers and unravelling of the genesis of this madness.

They may be frightening but they make one feel at home and stress, fatigue, and restlessness are wiped with their entertainment. These "Jujus" are no more fetish but act as a genre of literature and a tool of entertainment.
Come and lets enjoy this together.

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Jjust imagine the aesthetics in African cultural heritage. This masquerade is known as NKOH and it hails from Kom, Boyo Division, North West Region of Cameroon in Central Africa. You might just be interested in discovering this rich culture. Just take a holiday or break and enjoy with the natives in their festivals and ceremonies
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WHO WE ARE OR WHAT WE ARE

To be who we want to be or what we want to be requires a lot of reflections. Coming from a diverse African cultures with its heterogeneous traditions, for instance, the North West Region of Cameroon in Central Africa has a variation of more than 250 different languages and tribes or clans with its own cultures and traditions(with some similarities) , requires an African(especially the young) to be self conscious and intellectually strong in order to sail above all these conflicting customs and traditions, which inevitably play an important part in the development of the African. Ngugi Wa Mirii and Ngugi Wa Thiogo'o, Kenyan playwrights, in their play "I Will Marry When I want" say that "A people without a past is just like a tree without roots". The individual therefore most be aware of his or her past in order to be prepared for the future.
Literally speaking, African heads of State and the polticians have a tradition of keeping their subjects in the dark. They are given false information and as such the younger generation must stand up to this aged-old custom of lies telling and face the harsh realities of life. Even intellectual institutions like the Universities have become apolitical where University Dons are not promoted on merit but through political lobbying.
We need a society where cultural values are put to high esteem. an ethical society where people must realise that bribery and corruption is stealing and just like the traditional stealing a meat in your Mother's pot of soup is not good because the gods themselves are not angry. Or is it a Sodomic society where sexual immorality, incest, rape, homosexuality has become the order of the day? Going back to our roots and the history of our parents, we some some ethos which vehemently condemns such acts. Virginity and infidelity were our their watch word. The Pope's recent visit to Africa and his sermons and messages should be an eye opener to all these vices, eventhough he came as a Head of State and not as a Holy Father because he was heavily guarded and as such the common man never had the opportunity of touching his garments as a man of God.
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